Don’t hold your breath: Russia needs more security inspections at the Cairo International Airport before the Kremlin will allow direct flights to Egypt to resume, Sputnik reports. “It is obvious that some more time is needed to address concerns voiced during the last visit. As soon as we receive such invitation, we would send a group of experts again. We hope that it would be if not the last, but one of the final inspections," Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said. Suggestions that Russian flights would be returning on 23 February was more wishful thinking on the media’s part than anything to do with conditions on the ground, which is that Egypt still has some technical requirements to fulfill, Airport Holding Company board member Elhamy El Zayyat tells Al Mal. For once, those suggestions weren’t advanced by El Sahafa Masriya, but rather by the Russian press.

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