After striking Turkey and Egypt off the list of safe tourist destinations, Russia has decided to remove India as well, according to The Times of India. And while the reason for eliminating Turkey and Egypt is crystal clear, removing India from the list is not fully comprehended in the current geopolitics.

Amid warming relations between New Delhi and Moscow and their joint naval exercises to be held from Dec. 7-12, many wonder why Russian President Vladimir Putin would weaken India’s economy by removing it from Russia’s list of safe destinations for tourists.

Putin cancelled all flights to Egypt after the Oct. 31 explosion of a Russian passenger plane, which killed 224 people on board. And after the Turkish military shot down a Russian fighter jet in its airspace last Tuesday, the Russian president wiped out Russia’s tourist relations with Turkey, where 4.4 million Russians vacationed last year.

“This is extremely bad news for our tour operators. The flow of Russian tourists was expected to increase following the bombing a Russian plane (resulting in the suspension of Russian flights to Egypt) and the easing of visa restrictions,” Subhash Goyal, president of the Indian Association of Tour Operators, told the Pakistan Observer.

Russia set to strengthen China’s economy with tourists

India’s Goa has always been a favorite place for Russian tourists, according to Rajji Rai, former president of the Travel Agents Association of India and chairman of Swift Travels.

“Such is the demand that last year, Air India resumed its Moscow flight after a gap of around 15 years. Around 50% of tourists visiting Goa in winters are Russians,” he added.

Russians mean good business for India’s travel industry, he said and added that “they stay here for an average 3-6 months and are an integral part of the travel industry here.”

Moscow officials stated out that the removal of India from the safe travelling list was not connected to terror attacks. In what appears to be a move to strengthen China’s economy, Russia is now going to focus on China, Cuba and Vietnam as new directions for tourist flow as they “have excellent infrastructure, friendly atmosphere and warm weather in winter,” according to First Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Russian Federation Ivan Melnikov.

“Unfortunately, both India and Goa, were not discussed as a promising direction for Russian travelers,” Melnikov said, as reported by The Times of India.
Russia imposes visa regime on Turkey

On Friday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia is introducing a visa regime for Turkish citizens. The regime goes into effect Jan. 1, according to The Guardian.

Moscow has also warned all of its tour companies against selling vacation packages to Turkey and recommended that all Russian citizens leave the country that downed the Russian warplane last week. Additionally, it is expected that Putin is going to impose a number of economic sanctions and cancel joint projects in a bid to further cripple the Turkish economy.

The Turkish military said it had shot down the Russian fighter jet on Tuesday, triggering a furious response from the Kremlin and escalating the already-hot tensions in geopolitics. The Russian warplane was given ten warnings in five minutes as it approached the NATO member state’s territory. After the Russian Su-24 attack aircraft ignored the warnings, the Turkish military sent two of its F-16s to bring down the Russian jet.

With Putin warning the West of “serious consequences” for bringing down the Russian warplane, analysts believe Moscow is willing to unleash a nuclear war over the incident. Although Turkey is backed by NATO’s 5th Article, which states that an attack on one Ally shall be considered an attack on all NATO members, the chances that Russia is going start a nuclear war over the incident are very “likely,” according to Pavel Felgengauer, Russia’s most respected military analyst, as reported by ValueWalk.

Russia can easily destroy Turkey with nuclear bomb: Russian MP
A Russian MP has recently outlined how easy it would be for Russia to destroy Turkey.

“You just chuck one nuclear bomb into the straits, and there’d be a huge flood. The water would rise by 10-15 meters and the whole city would disappear,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the misnamed Liberal Democratic party, according to the Daily Mail.

It was also reported by the British news source that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refused to apologize to Moscow for the downing of the Russian warplane. He said that his country’s jets would act the exact same way if a similar situation ever occurred again. The words triggered furious rhetoric at the Kremlin.

The Turkish president also said on Friday that he had warned Putin about violations of Turkish airspace by Russian planes at the G20 summit in Antalya earlier this month. Erdogan said that Putin had told him to accept Russian warplanes “as guests,” to which the Turkish president responded that his country is not going to accept uninvited guests.Erdogan added during a speech in Bayburt that Russia is “playing with fire to go as far as mistreating our citizens who have gone to Russia.”

“We really attach a lot of importance to our relations with Russia … We don’t want these relations to suffer harm in any way,” he said.

The Turkish president also accused Putin of backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “terrorist state” in Syria. The comments come after Putin called the Turks, including Erdogan, “accomplices of terrorists” and claimed that Turkish officials were profiting from oil trade with ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane on Oct. 31.

Erdogan has previously said that the Turkish jets which were ordered to bring down the Russian Su-24 last Tuesday did not realize the jet was a Russian jet and would have acted differently had they known. http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/russia-sends-nuclear-war-signals-turkey/

This is becoming tougher...gehn gehn... Putin can sabi to put tins in order...

No peace for humanity for now.....a lot of scores to be settled

Putin vs the world

do wanna y I like Putin?....

every word he says is seriously considered!!

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Nice one putin...take it easy o

Russia can easily destroy Turkey with nuclear bomb: Russian MP
A Russian MP has recently outlined how easy it would be for Russia to destroy Turkey.
“You just chuck one nuclear bomb into the straits, and there’d be a huge flood. The water would rise by 10-15 meters and the whole city would disappear,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the misnamed Liberal Democratic party, according to the Daily Mail.

Sounds like the Russians have already carried out Russia vs NATO war simulation... Should be interesting to see who blinks first

A Russian MP has recently outlined how easy it would be for Russia to destroy Turkey.

“You just chuck one nuclear bomb into the straits, and there’d be a huge flood. The water would rise by 10-15 meters and the whole city would disappear,” said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the misnamed Liberal Democratic party, according to the Daily Mail.

Russian has many psychos....

sugarvallly:
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You too! End time otondo

Turkey is a nuclear armed country,there will never be a winner if war break out between them today

stinggy:


Russian has many psychos....

the man who may take over from putin may not be as calm as he is..

stinggy:


Russian has many psychos....

Probably why US and it's NATO ally find it difficult to bully them (Russia) into submission. US and Turkey are playing a dangerous game; US is well aware of Erdogan's Turkey buying ISIS stolen oil from Iraq which is funneled via Erdogan's Son for cheap (at about $25/barrel) and sold to other buyers like Japan at international rates (at about $45). That's a huge deal and is akin to sponsoring terrorism. Teorrorism can only thrive when there's availability of funds to sponsor its evil deeds, and either Erdogan (through his Son/Daughter/Secret Service) has been sponsoring ISIS directly or indirectly - by turning a blind eye while Syria-Turkey porous border, manned by Turkmen, has been left unchecked for ISIS to operate in and out of Turkey freely when and however it pleases.

When Putin's Russia found out about the ISIS Oil tankers passing through Turkey unchecked, he decided to focus on destroying ISIS source of wealth, killing Turkmen (Erdogan's militia men) as well. This didnt go down well with Turkey and Erdogan who decided to act rather crudely by shooting down a Russian jet that barely entered it's airspace. How about Turkey inconsiderably violating Greek and Syrian Airspace at an alarmingly high rate...

The big question is, with the touted sorties of bombings carried out by the US and NATO on ISIS positions and strongholds, how come US never considered bombing ISIS Oil business - Oil trucks and illegal refineries? With the US and Turkey mainly/primarily concerned about removing Syrian President Assad than fighting ISIS, then I think there's more to this ISIS and power tussle in the Middle East than we are made to know and understand

Abeg o. Make putin no start nuclear attack on turkey. Make im 4gv dem because person no sabi if im fit unintentionally start WW3 lyk dt. Make im just do lyk Jesus talk "turn d oda cheek" 4 d sake of world peace.

mojounited:


Probably why US and it's NATO ally find it difficult to bully them (Russia) into submission. US and Turkey are playing a dangerous game; US is well aware of Erdogan's Turkey buying ISIS stolen oil from Iraq which is funneled via Erdogan's Son for cheap (at about $25/barrel) and sold to other buyers like Japan at international rates (at about $45). That's a huge deal and is akin to sponsoring terrorism. Teorrorism can only thrive when there's availability of funds to sponsor its evil deeds, and either Erdogan (through his Son/Daughter/Secret Service) has been sponsoring ISIS directly or indirectly - by turning a blind eye while Syria-Turkey porous border, manned by Turkmen, has been left unchecked for ISIS to operate in and out of Turkey freely when and however it pleases.

When Putin's Russia found out about the ISIS Oil tankers passing through Turkey unchecked, he decided to focus on destroying ISIS source of wealth, killing Turkmen (Erdogan's militia men) as well. This didnt go down well with Turkey and Erdogan who decided to act rather crudely by shooting down a Russian jet that barely entered it's airspace. How about Turkey inconsiderably violating Greek and Syrian Airspace at an alarmingly high rate...

The big question is, with the touted sorties of bombings carried out by the US and NATO on ISIS positions and strongholds, how come US never considered bombing ISIS Oil business - Oil trucks and illegal refineries? With the US and Turkey mainly/primarily concerned about removing Syrian President Assad than fighting ISIS, then I think there's more to this ISIS and power tussle in the Middle East than we are made to know and understand

Don't get me wrong unc, I'm with Russia on this too, just surprised by the MP's openness. Not so common in the world today.

Russian has many psychos

Russia just having bragging rights cause of their gas and iron and little oil. without these, putin would just be powerless

bettercreature:
Turkey is a nuclear armed country,there will never be a winner if war break out between them today

The only reason Turkey is declared a nuclear state is via NATO nuclear sharing courtesy US Airforce Base stationed in Turkey. More so, these warheads are not currently deployed for war (as in, the warheads have not been placed on missiles) and would need US and NATO approval to be deployed and launched - Now, how long do you think that'd take? My guess is, at least a day. Russia doesn't have such quagmire on its wheels.

Russia has over 4,000 warheads against Turkey's 60. By ratio, that's more than 60:1 (this is a rough estimate, of course). Also, Russia has more than 1,600 already deployed warheads on Naval fleets (already in the Mediterranean), Airforce bases and others. Turkey would be obliterated before it is ready to launch a single nuclear attack on Russia.

Then Again, French President doesn't seem to like Erdogan very much especially after the Paris terror attacks and I don't see all NATO members sticking their necks out for Turkey. Countries like France, Germany and UK (especially) would need parliamentary approval before joining in an all out Nuclear war...British PM is currently lobbying opposition to gather more votes in order to join NATO strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. If that is the case, how long do you think it would take Britain, France and Germany to come to Turkey's aid?

I'm not belittling or writing off Turkey, not at all. Infact, Turkey has the largest military (ground troops) in NATO bar US. However, with Russia having the best air defense systems, a huge chuck of the world's nuclear warheads and Airforce that's better and out numbers those of Turkey, the war would end rather quickly for Turkey.

chaptersix:
Russia just having bragging rights cause of their gas and iron and little oil. without these, putin would just be powerless

Any nation with economic and military might can and will brag. How then do you think the US was able to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lybia to declare wars and topple their governments - the end results? Terrorism. Clearly they are yet to learn because I see no reason why they're fighting a proxy war in Syria.

Heck, the US is the only country to have used a nuclear weapon against another country (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan) - what's more evil than setting/sending a country back to stone age? Also, how do you think the US would react if Russia decides to step up military activities and set up military bases in Mexico and/or near US territory or that of its allies?