The Russian Embassy in the United States and are unable to recruit passengers for a single export flight and asked the Russians to live among compatriots

the Russian Embassy in the United States and are unable to recruit passengers for a single export flight and asked the Russians to live among compatriots the Russian Embassy in the United States and are unable to recruit passengers for a single export flight, and asked the Russians to stay with compatriots.
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the Russian Embassy in the United States asked stuck in the country of the Russians to live among compatriots, and said about the lack of passengers for a single flight for export from the United States. Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said that the interagency working group under the Federal air transport Agency is ready to resume export routes, but only a few Russians wishing to return home, registered on the website services.

According to Antonov, the answers of which Russian media are in the Facebook of the Embassy, this number “is not enough for the directions here even one plane.” The Ambassador stressed that the registration on the portal of public services “is a prerequisite for returning to Russia, as well as ticket availability or willingness to buy them”.

the Diplomat added that the Embassy is primarily focused on establishing contacts with the Russians, who unwillingly got into a very difficult life situation. Is the families who brought children for treatment from charitable foundations, pupils and students, as well as people with severe chronic diseases whose lives depend on regular use of rare medicines.

At the same time Russia has only three consular representative offices on the whole territory of the United States, therefore, diplomats are counting on the support of compatriots permanently residing in the United States.

“In conditions of severe lack of funds we continue to Fund hotel accommodation near new York 47 citizens. However, tomorrow will be forced to ask them to agree on the placement in families of compatriots, who kindly agreed to provide for the needy in his home,” – said Antonov. On Saturday the Embassy was talking about 2 thousands of Russians who want to return home.

the number of stranded in the USA, the Russians were scientific observer of radio station “Echo of Moscow” Marina Noted. She told me that she sent the forms and applications to the addresses listed by the Ministry of foreign Affairs, including the portal, bought a ticket from new York and were “another 150 lists”, but “the specifics of ends”.

Astvatsaturyan told that Washington sent a letter to the chief editor of “Echo” Alexei Venediktov to persuade the employee to register on the portal, but she already did it. “The bottom line: despite my law-abiding actions, we do not yet know,” she told RFI.

Astvatsaturyan and 50 Russians until Monday, lived at the hotel, where they settled in coordination with the Embassy in Washington. “The only thing that made the Consulate got in touch with some compatriots, and the few people who were with a small child, literally a handful, their families compatriots distributed”, – the journalist told.

According to her, there is also “segregation”: “citizens – a white bone and with a green card go on all four sides”. For example, to compatriots did not send a man with a three year old child who had a green card.

April 3 it became known that the Russian operational headquarters for combating coronavirus has decided to stop the mass export flights from abroad and to prepare each flight on a pre-agreed list in order to avoid a new wave of imported cases COVID-19. This news putabout in a stupor as the pending departure of the Russians, and the foreign Ministry.

Later Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, who, according to media reports, was one of the initiators of the abolition of the mass export, said that he had been declared only a “temporary timeout” for the weekend to be “civilized schedule” arrival. 6 APR export the flight resumed.