Russia-Georgia air links to resume, but storm clouds grow
AFP, March, 2008
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MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian-Georgian relations were set for a symbolic thaw Tuesday with the first passenger flight in eighteen months between Tbilisi and Moscow, but tensions over Georgia's pro-Western course and NATO ambitions were only growing.
The Georgian Airlines flight across the Caucasus mountains to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, with a return scheduled the same evening, was to be the first crack in an economic blockade imposed by the Kremlin in October 2006.
"The resumption of direct flights... is a positive step which Georgia welcomes sincerely. I hope it's a first but not a last step," Foreign Minister David Bakradze told AFP. "We also expect Russia to lift economic sanctions, visa and transport restrictions."
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The air, land and sea embargo, as well as bans on Georgian imports, were a huge blow to the ex-Soviet republic of about five million people, whose biggest economic partner has always ...
