Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has urged the country's authorities to close the border with Russia and ban Russian citizens from entering. He outlined his position on Facebook from custody, commenting on reports regarding the death of an employee at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.
The day before the media reported that the Georgian Airways will operate a Moscow-Tbilisi flight. The reason was his appearance on the board of the Moscow airport Vnukovo.
"The Russian side has not requested the restoration of air services. Accordingly, the disseminated information about the implementation of direct flights by the Georgian airline in the direction of Moscow does not correspond to the reality," said the Georgian Civil Aviation Agency.
Denied information about the flight and Georgian Airways,
stating that she had not applied for it. Representatives of Vnukovo Airport claimed a technical failure on the board.
Air service between Georgia and Russia ceased in July 2019 due to large-scale protests that took place after the incident with Duma deputy Gavrilov. At the opening of the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly in the Parliament of Georgia, he took the Speaker’s seat.