AKIPRESS.COM - Tajik authorities will ban 7 flights of the Russian airlines to Tajikistan in response to the Russian ban on 7 flights of the Somon Air to Russia, reports RIA Novosti.

The restrictions will be applied to Ural Airlines flights to Dushanbe and three UTair Aviation flights to Khujand, according to a source from the Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan.

The Russian side on April 3 imposed restrictions on the Tajik flights from Dushanbe to Russia decreasing the number of flights performed a week. The ban was imposed after Tajikistan prohibited 7 flights of the Yamal arlines from Zhukovsky airport to Dushanbe.

Then the Ministry of Transport of Tajikistan noted that the sides in the framework of the protocol of the intergovernmental commission of the two countries signed on January 27 agreed to perform two parity flights from Zhukovsky airport: 2 flights of Yamal airlines, and 2 flights of Somon Air.

Despite this, the Russian side demanded to allow 7 flights from Zhukovsky violating the agreement. The Tajik side does not agree on this and will further protect its interests, noted the source.