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Russia Won't Resume Flights to Egypt Soon, Medvedev Says
- Flights won't resume soon amid security worries, premier says
- Travel ban may cost tour operators $200 million, group warns
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Russia’s ban on flights to Egypt won’t be lifted quickly amid concerns that terrorists were responsible for bringing down an aircraft and killing 224 people, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.
“The chance it was a terrorist act, obviously, remains as an explanation for what happened,” Medvedev said, according to a transcript of an interview by state-owned Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper on Monday. “That’s why this decision was made” to halt flights “on the basis of recommendations and materials prepared by the anti-terrorism committee,” he said.