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Does Aeroflot’s domestic aircraft order mark progress for Putin?

2022-09-26T11:27:00

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Russian President Vladimir Putin once expressed his dissatisfaction with Aeroflot Group’s fleet choices while grilling then-chief Vitaly Saveliev, who was forced to explain why the flag carrier was overwhelmingly using Western rather than domestically-built aircraft.

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