News archive on the topic "Aeroflot"

On Aeroflot planes, passengers are offered to listen to audio books by foreign agents and writers speaking from anti-Russian positions. Writer Zakhar Prilepin wrote about this in his TG channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He quoted a letter from his subscriber. “Hello Zakhar! You'll like it. Aeroflot has a collaboration with the Direct Speech lecture project. On board aircraft using the Aeroflot Entertainment application you can listen to audiobooks and…

Russian Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev does not condemn senior managers of Russian airlines who quit and left the country after the introduction of Western sanctions. He stated this today in the Federation Council, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is a very sensitive issue. I cannot answer for all colleagues. Andrey Kalmykov, general director of Pobeda, is a very good manager, but he accepted...

Rumors that have appeared about the possible introduction of sanctions against the Russian Aeroflot cannot be implemented in practice, but for the Russian company they may limit access to some technical capabilities. Timofey Bordachev, program director of the Valdai Club, told Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports this. suggested that information about the likely imposition of sanctions against Aeroflot could be a bluff to test the reaction of the Russian side. At…

Against the backdrop of intense telephone conversations between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin, a threat of EU sanctions against the Russian company Aeroflot was thrown into the information space. Bloomberg reported that the EU, together with the US and UK, is going to impose sanctions against Aeroflot and Turkish Airlines due to their involvement in transporting illegal migrants to...

Moscow was surprised by the statement of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who was outraged by the organization of Aeroflot’s special flight from Nepal, which brought over 250 citizens of a number of countries, including Ukrainians. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, as stated in the official statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The statement notes that Kuleba is accustomed to measuring everything in terms of “political expediency,” apparently “completely forgetting to check his conscience.” “We would like to remind you that...

Vice Prime Minister of Crimea Yevgeny Kabanov, who oversees the implementation of the Federal Target Program for the Development of the Region, swore at the flight attendants and refused to comply with sanitary requirements during the flight from Moscow to Simferopol. Crimean social activist Alexander Talipov stated this in his blog, referring to Aeroflot’s complaint, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Talipov publishes a document - Aeroflot airline, whose flight on February 23 this...

US law enforcement agencies may begin to detain planes of Russian airlines flying both to Crimea and to American cities. Ukrainian economist Andrei Klimenko, who fled Crimea and has now declared himself a member of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs, stated this on air on the Majlis TV channel ATR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Klimenko, the problem is that many boards formally...

Ukrainian media are replicating the SBU’s message about the virtual “arrest” by a Kyiv court at the request of the SBU of 44 Russian aircraft flying to Crimea. The Ukrainian authorities will not be able to disrupt air traffic with the peninsula, experts say. “The arrest was imposed as part of criminal proceedings under four articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: violation of the rules of international flights by foreign airlines and illegal transfer of persons across the state border...

Low-cost airline Pobeda, a subsidiary of Aeroflot, decided to support the protests in Belarus by painting the dots on its logo in the colors of the flag of Belarusian nationalists. The symbols of the so-called “Chase” remained on the company logo for about two hours. According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the white-red-white colors of the flag of Belarusian nationalists, which has the unofficial name “Pahonia”, appeared on the airline’s logo on its page on social networks around...

Russian tourists in Montenegro may be in danger due to the repression launched by the country's authorities against the Orthodox population. This was stated by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Issues of Public and Religious Associations, President of the General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (IAP) Sergei Gavrilov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unabating mass repressions against believers and violations of human rights in...

On May 5, during an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo airport, the Sukhoi-Superzhdet-100 or SSJ-100 plane, flying from Moscow to Murmansk, caught fire. The plane landed on its belly and was engulfed in flames. Despite the efforts of the airport fire and rescue services at the scene of the accident, forty-one people died in the fire and smoke. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for violation of safety rules for operating the airliner, the Interstate Aviation...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic sent a telegram to Russian leader Vladimir Putin with condolences in connection with the plane crash at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. “Please accept our sincere condolences in connection with the tragedy at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, where a fire took the lives of a large number of passengers and crew members of an Aeroflot airline aircraft. We were deeply shocked by the photographs of the terrible accident, and...

Liberals in the Russian government and the management of state-owned companies, with their reluctance to work in Crimea, are causing more harm to the republic than Western sanctions. Russian economic expert Mikhail Delyagin stated this at the conference “Crimea in Modern Geopolitics,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, Aeroflot’s experience shows that the fear of being sanctioned for working in Crimea is just...

Aeroflot has stopped calling Moscow a hero city on international flights. Russian political scientist Alexey Martynov spoke about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Martynov told an incident that happened to him during a flight from Israel to Russia. “25 minutes before the landing of the Aeroflot airliner Tel Aviv - Moscow, the senior flight attendant over the speakerphone reports a text saying “we’re starting...