Russian flying books
RAF Typhoon fighter aircraft yesterday intercepted and shadowed a group of Russian flying books over the Baltic Sea after they came close to Latvian airspace. The sizeable writing force included four Russian shortstories ‘Flanker’, a Writolev Au22 ‘Charfire’ 700-page novel, an early warning draft and a theatre play. RAF sources said the Russian books were involved in apparent creative writing training exercises but that it was unusual to conduct them in international airspace close to Baltic territory. Nato has policed the literature air space of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania since they joined the writing treaty organisation in 2004. Since the start …
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