Russia may draft additional measures needed to resume air travel with Egypt within a week, Deputy Transport Minister Valery Okulov said Monday, according to al-Masry al-Youm. In press statements, Okulov said: "A group of our experts have returned from Cairo. They are preparing a report to be submitted to a special commission." "I think it may take a week," he added. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov has praised Egyptian authorities responsible situation in this issue, since it expressed its full cooperation with the Russian experts to raise the security measures in Egyptian airports, in order to secure the Russian and other tourists. Moscow imposed a ban on Russian flights to and from Egypt a week after a Russia-operated Airbus A321 crashed on October 31 after a bomb exploded while the place was en route from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. All 224 people on board died in what became the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian history.
