Boeing and Aeroflot signed a deal Saturday for the Russian carrier to acquire 22 Dreamliner jets from the American plane maker.
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June 11, 2007“One of major risks in buying Alitalia are powerful trade unions that in case of any discontent stage a strike that paralyzes work of the company and the airport,†Aviaport Agency analyst Oleg Panteleyev said in an interview.
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May 24, 2007Russia remains the most dangerous place to fly despite global improvements that made 2006 the safest year on record, the Reuters news agency reported quoting the latest annual report by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released on Tuesday.
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April 18, 2007State-owned Russian Railways plans to attract about $9 billion in investment next year, 20% more than in 2006, the company’s president said Monday.
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April 5, 2007The largest nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world has been put to sea and left St. Petersburg for Murmansk, the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted a spokesman for a St. Petersburg-based ship as saying.
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April 4, 2007Russian airline Aeroflot will join UniCredit to bid for Alitalia, Italy’s largest bank said on Monday, as two other bidders joined forces, reducing the total number of possible offers to three, the Russian carrier’s banking partner Unicredito Italiano said on Monday April 2.
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April 2, 2007A missile fired by Islamist fighters was responsible for the plane crash that left 11 people dead in Somalia on Friday, the Reuters news agency quoted Belarus officials as saying on Sunday.
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March 26, 2007Russian biggest carrier Aeroflot will acquire 22 Airbus A350 jets, said Aeroflot general director Valery Okulov. The deal (about $4 billion) is the largest purchase in Russian aviation history, according to news agencies.
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March 17, 2007A Russian Tupolev-134 passenger jet crashed during landing in the airport of Samara on Saturday morning, killing 5 people and wounding at least 51, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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Russia and Italy have signed a protocol on cooperation to develop the Russian aircraft Sukhoi SuperJet 100.
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