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Fasten your seatbelts: Russian airports hit turbulence

Published: 05 March, 2009, 18:04


The majority of Russian airports are in dire need of new equipment and facilities, the head of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Gennady Kurzenkov, admitted on Wednesday.

 
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