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Plane with Russian officers from Georgia lands outside Moscow

22:20 02/10/2006

A plane carrying four Russian officers charged in Georgia with espionage and released Monday has landed at a military airfield outside Moscow. Sergei Ivanov, the defense minister and a deputy prime minister, greeted the officers when they landed.

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