The FINANCIAL — Georgia hasn’t stopped electricity supply to Russia and Sochi even since the beginning of war in South Ossetia and acts in the frame of the acting contract.
RIA Novosti reported the news based on the electro-energy source, Russian Federation.
“Georgia supplies Russia with electro-energy till now, particularly- Sochi,” said the agency source.
On August 8 Reuters reported that Russia will cut all air links with Georgia from midnight on Friday, a spokeswoman for the Russian Transport Ministry said.
"From midnight the Russian Federation will halt all air communications with Georgia," the spokeswoman said.
Currently Russian citizens remain in Georgia.
As ITAR-TASS reported, Tbilisi’s international airport has cancelled flights to Europe except fore Turkey and Ukraine. All flights to Russia have also been cancelled.
Moscow cut air, sea and postal links to Georgia before, in October 2006, after a spying row triggered a sharp deterioration in relations between Russia and Tbilisi's pro-Western government.
Moscow restored air links in March this year.
Russia also halted wine and mineral water sales, which were crucial exports for the Caucasian country. It also doubled Tbilisi's gas bill to $235 for 1,000 cubic metres in 2007.
Apart from charter flights linked to religious holidays, the only other flights between the countries during the last ban were aircraft deporting Georgians deemed by Russia to be illegal immigrants.
Travelers then flying between Moscow and Tbilisi were forced to take alternative routes through Kiev, Baku or Istanbul.
Reporting by Conor Sweeney, editing by Mary Gabriel
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