Russia’s prime minister has warned that Russia may refuse Western airlines the right to fly over Siberia in response to sanctions that the European Union and the United States are poised to impose.
In an interview published this morning in the Russian paper Vedomosti, Dmitry Medvedev said that an end to overflight rights could drive “many” Western carriers to bankruptcy.
He also said that Western sanctions would not spur Russia to change policies, and argued that sanctions would help Russia. Western measures imposed on China after a bloody crackdown on dissidents in 1989 had “to a certain extent” helped China, he said. …read more
Source: European Voice
