Sentence examples for russian airspace from inspiring English sources

Oasis's inaugural flight was cancelled because it did not have rights to fly over Russian airspace.

It was denied access to Russian airspace, which delayed its first flight.

"Russian planes patrol Russian airspace, NATO planes patrol NATO airspace," he said.

A dozen American aircraft a day will fly through Russian airspace carrying troops and equipment to Afghanistan.

The unidentified aircraft flew from Russian airspace "into Georgian airspace and back again into Russian airspace three times," according to the report, intended for distribution to Western governments, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations.

In addition to the overland freight routes, Moscow now allows the United States to fly troops into Afghanistan through Russian airspace.

Re "Bush Freezes Assets Linked to Terror Net; Russians Offer Airspace and Arms Support" (front page, Sept. 25): Why has it taken thousands of lives and the horrific devastation of our country's financial and defense centers for the United States government finally to decide on sweeping measures to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden and other known terrorists?

Last year, there were 10 incursions by Russian aircraft into airspace belonging to Nato members.

The head of the Russian Air Traffic Controllers Unionn, Sergei Kovalyov, told BBC Russian that the airspace over eastern Ukraine had remained open during the conflict because the planes previously shot down had tended to be helicopters or low-flying fast jets.

Kremlin-backed TV channels were jammed into the airspace, Russian-language newspapers disseminated stories and content produced in Moscow, while NGOs, funded by Russian money, offered up talking heads on every issue under the sun.

Turkey threatened to react with military force to future violations of its airspace by Russian warplanes, after revealing that it scrambled two F-16 fighters on Saturday when a Russian fightersjet briefly cronSaturdayborder from Syria.