By empty (10/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian citizens who were due to leave Tbilisi for Moscow by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft are not leaving Tbilisi airport despite the cancellation of the flights. Some Russians said that they are ready to fly to Moscow by cargo aircraft, because they their Georgian visas had expired and they were without money. Earlier on Monday, the Georgian department of civil aviation received a request on the landing of two Russian Emergency Situations Ministry\'s planes: a passenger plane and a cargo aircraft, the department told Interfax.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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