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Raila pitches for direct flights to Kenya from Moscow

By PMPS
Kenya and Russia have agreed to initiate the process of signing a bilateral air traffic agreement that will allow the national carriers of the two countries, the Kenya Airways and the Aeroflot, to fly directly to Moscow and Nairobi respectively.

The deal was arrived at during a meeting between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 2012 St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which ended on Saturday.

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