Russia cut off travel and mail links with its southern neighbor following Georgia's brief arrest of four Russian officers on spying charges in September, but since the beginning of this year has moved to mend ties, returning its ambassador to Tbilisi and re-establishing postal links.
Representatives of the Russian Transport Ministry and Georgia's National Transport Regulation Commission will hold talks "on the resumption of air communications between the two countries in Moscow at the start of next week - February 5-6," Ivan Volynkin said.
Russia's ambassador to Georgia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was recalled at the height of the standoff, returned to Tbilisi last month and held talks with Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili, at which the sides discussed ways of resuming cooperation.
A Georgian Foreign Ministry spokesman said last week that Tbilisi had received the go-ahead from Moscow to start negotiations on restoring air links, following two proposals from the Georgian side.
