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The Foreign Ministry advised on Friday Bulgarians to refrain from travelling to the Egyptian resorts located on the Sinai peninsula (Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba and others) until the investigation of the crashed Russian airplane has come out with a definitive conclusion on the likely causes of the incident.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to suspend all commercial flights to Egypt until an investigation determines the causes of the deadly Russian A321 plane crash, TASS reported on Friday.

Security concerns have been raised at Sharm el-Sheikh airport after a British tourist said he was offered the chance to pay 30 pounds to skip queues and baggage checks, as Independent reports.

Dale Parkyn visited the Egyptian resort with his wife earlier this year and told Sky News that a man in military uniform approached them and asked if they wanted to avoid the long queues.

A Russian airplane carrying more than 200 people on board has reportedly crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday.

The information on the crash has been confirmed by the office of the Egyptian Prime Minister, the BBC reports.

The airplane operated by Kogalymavia airline was conducting flight 92-68 from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg.

Novinite is publishing brief sketches on Hurghada, Soma Bay and El Gouna - three places a group of journalists, including two members of Novinite team, visited at the invitation of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism in mid-June.

"How was Egypt? Did you see the Pyramids?" This is the first question any visitor to the Northern African country would normally hear upon arrival at the airport of their respective hometown. Answering "no" would make friends or family members coming to welcome you at the airport frown with a question on their lips.

Tourism ministry officials from Egypt and Bulgaria and both countries' ambassadors are due to hold a conference on promoting bilateral tourism cooperation from Wednesday to Friday in Egypt's capital Cairo.