Russia Deports 119 Georgians

A Russian Emergency Ministry IL-62 passenger plane carrying 119 Georgian deportees landed at the Tbilisi airport on October 10.

This is the second planeload of Georgians deported from Russia for migration offences. Over 130 Georgians arrived in Tbilisi on a Russian Emergency Ministry cargo plane on October 6.

An official from the Georgian Embassy in Moscow said that about 70 Georgians remain in various police stations in the Russian capital awaiting deportation.

Also on October 10, the Russian Emergency Ministry?s plane took 150 Russian citizens from Georgia as part of ?the partial evacuation? announced by the Russian authorities after a spy row erupted between the two countries on September 27.

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