Tatyana Golikova
the Press service of the President of Russia on Friday it became known that the Federal operational headquarters for combating coronavirus has decided on 4 April to stop the mass export flights from abroad and to prepare each flight on a pre-agreed list
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Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said that Russia has not stopped the export of their citizens from abroad, and took a “temporary timeout” for the weekend, to form the lists of departing and clearly understand who and where will arrive and where it will undergo a two week quarantine. According Golikova, the formation of new schedules for export the Russians will start from 6 April.
the Vice Prime Minister stressed that “no man left behind”, but “it is important not to another wave of coronavirus in Russia”, reports “Interfax”. She also said that of the 26 thousand people who had to return to Russia, 13660 are unable to identify.
“We don’t leave anybody behind, we’ll make a civilized schedule of arrival to the territory of the Russian Federation on the one the only goal is to ensure the health of those who live here today and keeps all of the new rules introduced by the decree of the President and the chief sanitary doctors in the respective regions of the country”, – quotes Golikova RIA “Novosti”.
the Government has published on its website a resolution to allocate the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the government reserve Fund to 500 million roubles for rendering assistance to the Russians who are stuck abroad and unable to return home due to the coronavirus. These funds will be paid for a temporary stay of Russians on the territory of foreign States. How exactly will these funds be distributed is not yet clear.
on Friday it became known that the Federal operational headquarters for combating coronavirus has decided on 4 April to stop the mass export flights from abroad and to prepare each flight on a pre-agreed list.
the Federal air transport Agency reported that the validity of the previously issued permits for scheduled international flights for the removal of Russian citizens and CIS citizens from abroad in Russia temporarily suspended. From the message of the operational staff, it follows that the decision to stop the mass export flight was made to limit the new wave of imported cases of coronavirus.
In this case, as said the source TASS, close to the working group on return of Russians from abroad, airlines and the authorities are also faced with the disorganization of passengers who often do not come on the flight. The staff explained that now the return of Russians will be targeted: those who want to return home, needs to fill out a form on a Uniform portal of state services. Based on the collected questionnaires will form the schedule of export to Russia.
After the statement was oberstab cancelled flights Aeroflot from new York and the Maldives, the S7 flight for transporting passengers from Thailand, Vietnam and Japan flights “Ural airlines” from India. Airline “Russia” had planned a flight from Indonesia, was also ontment flight Lithuanian airlines JSC KlasJet from Algeria.
Director Alexander Sokurov before clarification Golikova has addressed an open letter to the Council on human rights under the RF President with a request to facilitate the return of Russians to their homeland.
“We found huge funds to send entire squadrons of huge transport planes, to give different countries quite well what yourself need today more than only: and special equipment, and masks, and disinfectants. But we have neither the aircraft nor the funds to bring our citizens Home. What is it called and what’s going on?” the letter reads, which was published by the TV channel “Rain”.
According to unofficial estimates, the border remained more than 30 thousand Russians, writes “Kommersant”. Those who signed up via the diplomatic mission as wishing to return home. According to sources the newspaper, it Golikova, and the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova insisted on tough restrictions on the export of the Russians to “accurately track and prevent the uncontrolled spread of infection.”
the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry in an interview with the newspaper stated that as a result of cancellations “in the trash flies all: the work of the Ministry of foreign Affairs and embassies of the lists, coordination of flights, permission for travel”.
the Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova acknowledged comments in the “Rain” that after yesterday’s statement of the operational headquarters “many, of course, have fallen into despair”, and the Saturday review of Tatiana Golikova interpreted as a signal that the work continues. Zakharov added that the foreign Ministry received from the government of the Russian Federation “a package of solutions”.
“the speed of the government in this case, and the legal, financial training solutions in support of Russian citizens abroad, I’ve never seen. Usually it’s soglasovaniell for months, but now it takes hours or at most days,” marveled the representative of the foreign Ministry. According to her, is already clear the mechanism of using a dedicated Cabinet funds to support Russians abroad.
