Ufa

Yesterday, Russian authorities gave permission to the local tour operator Pegas Touristik to resume charter flights to Bulgaria, told TravelNews Rumyana Yuksel, Manager of Aqua Tour BG, who is representative of the Russian tour operator in Bulgaria.

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A plane with hundreds of tourists on board made an emergency landing in Russia after one of its engines caught fire soon after takeoff.

All 202 passengers plus crew members were safely evacuated from the Red Wings Tu-204 at Ufa in the Ural mountains.

Tourists on flight number 808 filmed the left-side engine as it sparked and was engulfed in flames.

Turkey's Limak has said it became a partner in a $570 million (34 billion rubles) worth highway construction project in the Russian city of Ufa. 

Turkish Airlines is expecting to carry more than 2 million passengers from Russia to Turkey in the upcoming six-month tourism season, hitting a new record, as bilateral ties between the two countries normalize after the crisis over Ankara's downing of a Russian jet in November 2015. 

Scheduled flights between Russia and Turkey by the two countries' flag carriers have dropped almost 50 percent along with the number of passengers after the downing of Russian jet by Turkey on Nov. 24, 2015, a tourism official has said. 

The Fiba Group has not put its Russian banking unit Credit Europe Bank up for sale, Fiba board member Murat Özye?in said on Feb. 11, stressing that the company has "good relations" with the Russian government.

"We do not have any problems with Russia. We have not seen any pressure from Russia either. We are not planning to sell our banking unit," Özye?in said, as quoted by Reuters.

Pakistan has accused India of another breach of their ceasefire in the disputed Kashmir region, after reporting the death of four civilians in earlier cross-border shelling.
 

Russia hosted two important gatherings, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS (the five emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summits on July 8-10, 2015, in the Russian city of Ufa, as the simultaneous holder of the rotating chairmanships of both institutions.

The declaration signed by BRICS leaders, issued at their meeting in the Russian town of Ufa, is set on confirming the organization's unified vision on issues of international importance.

A number of analysts believe that this is a step in the direction of the organization aiming at increasing its role in resolving global issues.