A Belarussian cargo plane was attacked as it was landing at an airport in Somalia on Monday, but no one was hurt, the Interfax news agency reported citing a Belarussian official.
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March 12, 2007A Russian policeman has been jailed for phoning an airport with a bomb warning to help acquaintances of his boss make their flight, the Reuters news agency reports quoting an article in the Friday issue of Russian daily Kommersant.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview published on Monday, March 5, that new shareholders should not be admitted to European aerospace company EADS’s shareholder pact. Merkel was answering a question about allowing Russian investors to buy into the pan-European company.
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March 5, 2007According to Reuters, Russia’s top carrier Aeroflot could still buy aircraft from U.S.-based Boeing despite a major contract with Europe’s Airbus, Economy Minister German Gref told reporters on Thursday.
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February 23, 2007Russia is interested in acquiring a larger stake in European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., the parent company of airline manufacturer Airbus, Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, February 21.
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February 22, 2007Norwegian authorities detained the captain, co-captain and five other crew members of a Ukrainian giant An-22 cargo plane on suspicion of intending to fly while drunk, the Associated Press reports.
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January 9, 2007
A syndicate of Russian banks and Cuba’s Aviaimport S.A. have signed a $203.4 million credit agreement, RIA Novosti news agency reported Friday.
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December 22, 2006The Federal Security Service Directorate for Novosibirsk Region is to send to court a criminal case brought against Oleg Korobeynichev, the head of the laboratory of the Institute of Kinetics and Combustion of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported on Friday quoting a press statement by the head of the directorate Sergey Savchenkov.
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The Indian council for defense purchases approved acquisition of an additional set of Russian fighters Su-30MKI for the country’s Air Force, Defense Minister Arakkaparambil Kurian Antony is quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying.
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December 17, 2006Russia will postpone delivery of Su-30MKM fighter jets to Malaysia until 2007, the management of Irkutsk aircraft manufacturing plant said on Thursday. Irkutsk aircraft manufacturing plant belongs to the Irkut research and scientific association, which produces Su jets.
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December 15, 2006
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