We have been waiting for

Just this Board arrived in Moscow 205 people, most of them fellow citizens, five citizens of Ukraine and three in Kazakhstan and two dogs.

Given the intensity of work on Board were three crew reinforced a total population of 40 people. Total aircraft been in the air for about one hundred hours.

All the passengers, according to the Russian legislation, must within 14 days to comply with the isolation mode. Those who live in Moscow and the Moscow region, went to the quarantine to his home, the rest were placed in the health Observatory in the Moscow region. As for foreigners, they arrived in the morning, the diplomats of their countries to ensure the transit of their citizens in their homeland.

the Flight was free for all passengers. The only thing they had to pay, is a Tanzanian visa. Everything else, including meals on Board and overnight at the hotel in one of the transit points, paid the organizers of the flight. Free for arrivals will be two weeks in the suburban Observatory.

each of the arriving situations. Someone used the flight to get to the funeral of a loved one. Someone stuck from lack of air and waited a few months to return, as, for example, two daughters of Catherine – she arrived to meet the flight to Sheremetyevo. “My daughter’s visiting her grandmother in Jordan, when the pandemic was closed and flights. Initially we hoped that soon all will be restored, but at the end of the spring wrote a letter to the Russian foreign Ministry with a request to help to take the children,” she said. Two months of waiting to get the construction Manager in Cameroon Mr Our. Another passenger by the name of Leonid said that often rests in Kenya, but “had to return, because the money time to earn”. And then, he said, turned up and export this flight.

Special attention from the audience at Sheremetyevo journalists were used by the chief engineer of the tanker Remos Oleksiy Plotnikov. The story is quite well-known more than a year, a tanker owned by Greek company Etterna, is anchored in the port of tema in southern Ghana due to problems with financing. The sailors were left to fend for themselves with virtually no food and water. On the ship there is no fuel, so it is impossible to run the generators. Sailors sleep in the tropical heat on deck, which catches malaria. Recently died of a stroke, the ship’s captain, Sergiy Yasko from Kerch. Oleksiy Plotnikov brought personal belongings of the deceased to convey their relatives.

“Each of those involved in the implementation of this flight will have 24 hours working time (this greatly exceeds any standards, so fly three crews – all 40 people at full strength, including two technicians on Board). The work will be those who remain on earth colleagues Russian diplomatic missions that in the last days the clock formed lists of departing, putting the effort to keep anyone from wanting to fly not forgotten. And colleagues from the telecommunications Ministry and the Federal air transport Agency, leading the flight in the framework of its functions from Moscow,” – wrote on his page on Facebook before the flight, the Deputy Director of the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry Denis Mikerin, who had made the journey without actually leaving the plane. “It was hard, but kept on adrenaline. Really supports the feeling that you really help people,” he told “RG” in Sheremetyevo airport after the arrival.

the Russian foreign office has launched an unprecedented export of compatriots from abroad in March, as soon as the country began to suspend flights because of fears of the spread of coronavirus.

During this time the aircraft of various Russian airlines were evacuated several thousand people from a variety of points, from Denpasar to Los Angeles. Since April 7, export the flight returned about 60 thousand citizens of Russia.

Prepare the export of the flight, the official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, took four months.

Also, Zakharova said, speaking at a press briefing on 20 July, diplomats from different countries are actively cooperating when it comes to helping people. “We have excellent examples of cooperation with the Ukrainian diplomats and citizens of Georgia, and with the official structures of Georgia for the benefit of the citizens of our two countries. We just helped them”, – said official representative of Russian foreign Ministry.