Russian Foreign Ministry Sends Evacuation Info to 20 000 Russian Tourists in Egypt via Social Media
... VKontakte (or VK), Russia’s most popular social network, due to the flight suspension ordered on November 6. On Sunday, a regional Ivanovo website first reported that Russian tourists in Egypt had received direct messages from the official group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), launched in June, detailing the evacuation from Egypt. It was pointed out in particular that even those users who were registered under fake names received messages, and that no one requested information from tour companies....