On February 27, the Russian delegation proposed to restore direct flights between the two countries at talks with the United States in Istanbul BRUSSELS, April 4. /TASS/. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he doesn’t know anything about the proposal to resume direct flights between the United States and Russia mentioned by Russian officials earlier. "I haven’t heard anything about direct flights. I don’t know who is going to fly because these people are sanctioned," he said, when asked to