MOSCOW, February 05. /ITAR-TASS/. All foreign airline companies which perform flights to Russia report the data about passengers on board their planes to the Russian authorities, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said at a meeting of the Russian Cabinet on Wednesday.

"Despite a number of problems in contacts with the European Union as regards air transportation a total of 113 foreign airline companies from all over the world, which have air service to Russia, in fact have been reporting the data about their passengers," Liskutov said.