The largest Russian airline, Aeroflot, sent an aircraft to Iran for repairs for the first time. All because of the sanctions imposed against Russia, reports RBC. The airliner with registration number RA-73700 flew to Tehran on April 5. Employees of the largest Iranian carrier Mahan Air are going to perform maintenance on the aircraft landing gear...
Aeroflot pilot, captain of the A-320 airliner Andrei Litvinov spoke about the state of civil aviation in Russia and about its prospects, Current Time reports. Russian airlines may suspend flights on Russian regional Sukhoi Superjet airliners due to a shortage of engine spark plugs. They are not...
Two businessmen have been charged with running a money laundering scheme to protect Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, from having his $90 million yacht confiscated. 51 year old…
Foreign manufacturers that produce processors for Russia according to the documentation provided by the country refused to fulfill orders in 2022, as well as supply already manufactured products, Voice of America reports. This year, according to the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, 15 thousand PCs were produced ...
The consulting company NF Group (ex-Knight Frank Russia) has calculated the number of international brands operating in Russia. The study included 152 foreign retailers that continued to operate as part of shopping centers in 2022, according to CRE. The leaders in terms of the number of brands represented in Russia are…
On November 11, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation published a list of persons who are now banned from entering Russia. And then everyone rushed there. “In response to the ever-increasing personal sanctions imposed by the administration of US President Joe Biden, not only against Russian officials ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that one of its divisions is called upon to fight crime. Among other things, it monitors financial crimes and tracks down the expensive property of the Russian elite, which is under sanctions. In the current fiscal year, the division has identified more than $32 billion for a possible…
A sudden and unexpected surge in European exports of washing machines, refrigerators and even electric breast pumps to Russia's neighbors has officials fearing a trade boom could help Putin's war machine in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. According to data compiled by Bloomberg from the EU Eurostat database,…
Five Russian citizens have been charged with evading global sanctions, money laundering and transferring military technology to American companies in Russia. This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice. The defendants obtained military technology from American companies, smuggled millions of barrels of oil and…
Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, U.S. companies have been barred from doing business with Moscow Machine-Building Plant (MMZ) Avangard, a state-owned firm that makes missiles for one of Russia’s most advanced weapons, the S-400 air defense system. But as it turns out...