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Agreement Russia-EU for the Siberia's overflight

Brussels, Belgium - It is an historical signature which ends a big dispute

According to sources of the EU presidency the EU and Russia have reached a deal to abolish the taxes the airlines flying over Siberia have to pay to Russia. According to what reported the deal signed by European commissioner for Transports, Jacques Barrot, and the Russian Minister of Transports, Igor Levitin, will end a 20-year-dispute which cost EUR 330m to the airlines only in 2006. The agreement...

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