MOSCOW: Russian aviation authorities have banned Tajikistan's national airline from flying to Russia, citing violations of air transport agreements, Russian news agencies reported Saturday.The RIA-Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited Russia's Federal Aviation Agency as saying the temporary ban is in response to illegal charges that Russian air carriers flying to Tajikistan have been subjected to by the Tajik aviation agency. They said this was in violation of the air communication agreement between the two ex-Soviet republics.
Calls to Russian and Tajik aviation officials were unanswered Saturday afternoon.
The impoverished Central Asian nation's only airline, Tajikistan Airlines, operates flights to three Russian cities — Moscow and two cities in Siberia, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg. The flights are highly popular as hundreds of thousands of Tajiks work in Russia as seasonal workers.
Tajikistan suffered a devastating five-year civil war in the 1990s and is the poorest of the ex-Soviet republics.
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