Egypt is smoothing things over with Italy — now it’s Russia’s turn

Italy is sorted — Russia should be next: The return of Italy’s ambassador to Cairo is a sign of Egypt’s deftness in handling the tensions over the Giulio Regeni case, but also serves as a reminder that Russia has yet to lift its flight ban, Abdel Mohsen Salama writes in a column penned for Al Ahram. Salama points out that Egyptian authorities have been equally cooperative — if not more so — with the Russians, and have complied with all of Moscow’s security requests, but that these efforts have yet to bear any fruit.