Employees sort and pack apples at RAJPOL company, near Grojec August 4, 2014. Russia officially closed its borders to Polish fruit and vegetables on August 1, depriving farmers and exporters of a market worth more than 300 million euros ($400 million) last year. REUTERS/Filip Klimaszewski
BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European airlines Lufthansa, Air France-KLM and Finnair would be hardest hit by a potential closure of the airspace over Siberia, data from a flight tracking website shows.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Moscow was considering banning European and U.S. airlines from flying transit routes through Russian airspace in retaliation for tougher sanctions from Europe and the United States.
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