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Added on the 19/05/2023 13:55:26 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show a Russian passenger plane landing in Georgia for the first time since 2019, following a decision last week from Russian President Vladimir Putin to lift a flight ban. The resumption of flights has stirred protests in Georgia, as Moscow fought a brief but bloody war with Georgia and recognised two separatist territories in the north of the country as independent. IMAGES
Search teams find wreckage of the An-26 passenger plane with 28 people aboard that disappeared in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the country's aviation agency told AFP. IMAGES
Thousands of protesters attempt to storm the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi, furious that a Russian lawmaker addressed the assembly from the speaker's seat during an international event. IMAGES
Thousands of protesters attempt to storm the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi, furious that a Russian lawmaker addressed the assembly from the speaker's seat during an international event. Demanding that the parliamentary speaker resign, about 10,000 protesters broke riot police cordons to enter the parliament's courtyard, an AFP reporter witnessed. Police pushed them back, but several protesters continued trying to enter the building. IMAGES of protesters gathered outside the parliament
Scenes of a passenger plane engulfed in flames as it sits on the tarmac in Moscow's busiest airport. At least one person has died and several more are injured after a passenger plane caught fire after making an emergency landing in Moscow, Russian media reports. IMAGES