Category - Russia

MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/. Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot will cancel 31 international and domestic flights from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on January 18-19 as a heavy snowfall is expected in the region, the company’s press service said on Monday. The flights to Tel Aviv, Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, Rome, Minsk, Almaty, Tallinn, Paris, Tivat (Montengero), Riga, Vienna, […]

Dusseldorf – The discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at Dusseldorf Airport led to the cancellation of seven flights on Monday, officials said. The ordnance, which was found overnight near the runway of Germany’s third largest airport, was safely detonated by bomb disposal experts. Two departures and five arrivals were cancelled during the […]

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said it would include fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports. Australia, Canada and Norway are also affected. Russia is also banning Ukrainian airlines from transit across its territory, he said in televised comments to the government. Furthermore, the Russian government is considering banning transit flights for EU and US […]

Travel advisory to the following areas: republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan; republics of Karachai-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria (including the Mount Elbrus region) and North Ossetia Budyonnosky, Levokumsky, Neftekumsky, Stepnovsky and Kurski districts, in the region of Stavropol Krai. If you are currently in one of these areas, you should leave. The ability of the Embassy of […]

Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada advises against all travel to the following areas: republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan; republics of Karachai-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria (including the Mount Elbrus region) and North Ossetia Budyonnosky, Levokumsky, Neftekumsky, Stepnovsky and Kurski districts, in the region of Stavropol Krai. If you are currently in one of these areas, you […]

RUSSIAN FEDERATION – Sochi City – UPDATE: Floods and mudslides caused by heavy rain have prompted Russian authorities to introduce a state of emergency in Sochi, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics e-travel alerts