Moscow's ban on all flights to Egypt in the wake of a Russian plane crash will last for at least several months, the Kremlin chief of staff said Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to Egypt's struggling tourism industry. President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on a visit to Finland that it would be impossible to radically revise Egypt's security system in a short time, according to Russian news reports. Putin suspended all flights to Egypt on Friday amid security concerns after the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 people onboard. Other airliners from Britain and Western Europe are also bringing their nationals home, after several countries and...
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