An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian airline Aeroflot with registration VP-BOE is pictured on a long term parking at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian airline Aeroflot with registration VP-BOE is pictured on a long term parking at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian airline Aeroflot with registration VP-BOE is pictured on a long term parking at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

A police vehicle drives behind an Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian airline Aeroflot with registration VP-BOE on a long term parking at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian airline Aeroflot with registration VP-BOE is pictured on a long term parking at Cointrin airport in Geneva, Switzerland, March 9, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse 

An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian Aeroflot airlines is pulled by a Trepel pushback tractor of air service provider DNATA at Zurich airport, Switzerland April 16, 2019. Picture taken April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

A passenger enters an A321-211 aircraft of Russian Aeroflot airlines at Zurich airport, Switzerland April 16, 2019. Picture taken April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

An Airbus A321-211 aircraft of Russian Aeroflot airlines is seen at Zurich airport, Switzerland April 16, 2019. Picture taken April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

Planes of Russian airline Aeroflot are seen parked at the terminal F of Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia December 21, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov 

An Aeroflot passenger plane is pictured after being evacuated due to a bomb threat, at Geneva airport, Switzerland October 13, 2016. REUTERS/Marina Depetris TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The logo of Russian state airline Aeroflot is pictured at the company's stand during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 16, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin 

The logo of Russian state airline Aeroflot is pictured at the company's stand during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin 

The logo of Russian state airline Aeroflot is pictured at the company's stand during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2016 (SPIEF 2016) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin 

The logo of Russian state airline Aeroflot is seen on top of a building in central Moscow, Russia, April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev 

The logo of Russian state airline Aeroflot is seen on top of a building in central Moscow, Russia, April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev 

A Transaero Boeing 737 aircraft ascends after taking off from a runway at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russia, October 2, 2015. Russian state airline Aeroflot said on October 1 it would not proceed with the acquisition of struggling competitor Transaero after its rival's shareholders failed to present an offer for the purchase of a 75 percent stake before the deadline. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

A Transaero Boeing 737 aircraft takes off from a runway at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russia, October 2, 2015. Russian state airline Aeroflot said on October 1 it would not proceed with the acquisition of struggling competitor Transaero after its rival's shareholders failed to present an offer for the purchase of a 75 percent stake before the deadline. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

Transaero Boeing 747-400 aircrafts are parked at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russia, October 2, 2015. Russian state airline Aeroflot said on October 1 it would not proceed with the acquisition of struggling competitor Transaero after its rival's shareholders failed to present an offer for the purchase of a 75 percent stake before the deadline. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

A Transaero aircraft is parked at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russia, October 2, 2015. Russian state airline Aeroflot said on October 1 it would not proceed with the acquisition of struggling competitor Transaero after its rival's shareholders failed to present an offer for the purchase of a 75 percent stake before the deadline. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

A Transaero Boeing 747-400 aircraft takes off from a runway at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, Russia, October 2, 2015. Russian state airline Aeroflot said on October 1 it would not proceed with the acquisition of struggling competitor Transaero after its rival's shareholders failed to present an offer for the purchase of a 75 percent stake before the deadline. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

Passengers are seen inside a Transaero Boeing 737 aircraft at Kiev International airport in Kiev, Ukraine, September 25, 2015. Ukraine is banning flights by Russian airlines from October 25 as part of a wave of sanctions against Russia over its support for separatists in the east of the country, the government said on Friday. Kiev said last week it was imposing restrictions on more than 90 companies or groups, mostly from Russia, and including airlines Transaero and Aeroflot, the national flag carrier. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko 

A ground crew member walks past a Transaero Boeing 737 aircraft at Kiev International airport in Kiev, Ukraine, September 25, 2015. Ukraine is banning flights by Russian airlines from October 25 as part of a wave of sanctions against Russia over its support for separatists in the east of the country, the government said on Friday. Kiev said last week it was imposing restrictions on more than 90 companies or groups, mostly from Russia, and including airlines Transaero and Aeroflot, the national flag carrier. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko 

A Boeing 737-800 NG, owned by Dobrolet airline and heading to Simferopol, takes off at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, June 10, 2014. Low-cost carrier Dobrolet, Aeroflot's new airline subsidiary, started flights to Crimea on Tuesday after a launching ceremony attended by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, according to local media. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT) 

A Boeing 737-800 NG, owned by Dobrolet airline and heading to Simferopol, flies after taking off at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, June 10, 2014. Low-cost carrier Dobrolet, Aeroflot's new airline subsidiary, started flights to Crimea on Tuesday after a launching ceremony attended by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, according to local media. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT) 

The Aeroflot aircraft for the SU150 Moscow-Havana flight (R) is seen as a taxi drives out of a parking lot at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport June 24, 2013. The Aeroflot flight from Moscow that was being closely tracked by media organizations in case Edward Snowden, the former security contractor who revealed details of U.S. surveillance programs, was on board, landed in Cuba uneventfully on Monday. Russian reporters on board the flight and foreign press gathered at Havana airport reported no sightings of Snowden or any unusual security. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT) 

People walk near the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba, the U.S. Interests Section, (USINT), in Havana June 23, 2013. An aircraft believed to be carrying Edward Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday after Hong Kong let the former U.S. security contractor leave the territory, despite Washington's efforts to extradite him to face espionage charges. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Snowden was heading for a "democratic nation" which it did not name, although a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said he would fly on within 24 hours to Cuba and then planned to go to Venezuela. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS) 

A security guard walks outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba, the U.S. Interests Section, (USINT), in Havana June 23, 2013. An aircraft believed to be carrying Edward Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday after Hong Kong let the former U.S. security contractor leave the territory, despite Washington's efforts to extradite him to face espionage charges. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Snowden was heading for a "democratic nation" which it did not name, although a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said he would fly on within 24 hours to Cuba and then planned to go to Venezuela. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: POLITICS) 

A plane believed to carry Edward Snowden, the former contractor for the U.S. National Security Agency, lands in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, June 23, 2013. Snowden will fly from Moscow to Cuba on Monday and then plans to go to Venezuela, a source at the Russian airline Aeroflot said on Sunday. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva (RUSSIA - Tags: MEDIA POLITICS)

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (2nd L), Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov (2nd R), Vitaly Saviliev, general director of Aeroflot Russian Airline (R), and Sergey Kravchenko (L) of Boeing Russia congratulate each other during their meeting in Moscow March 9, 2011. Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organisation is moving ahead and enjoys the strong support of the U.S. government, Vice-President Biden said in Moscow on Wednesday. REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS) 

An Aeroflot airplane is pictured after landing at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens December 22, 2008. An Aeroflot flight from Athens to Moscow turned back in mid-air on Monday after receiving an anonymous bomb warning, but the plane landed safely and all passengers were disembarked, airport officials said. REUTERS/John Kolesidis (GREECE) 

Boeing Vice President Scott Carson hands a model of an airplane to Russian airline Aeroflot Chief Executive Valery Okulov (L) after signing a deal during the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg June 9, 2007. Russian airline Aeroflot signed a deal on Saturday to buy Boeing-787 Dreamliner aircraft at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. REUTERS/Said Tsarnayev (RUSSIA) 

A crew officer checks the Russian A320 aircraft standing on the tarmac at Prague's Ruzyne airport December 28, 2006. Passengers overpowered a Russian man who tried to hijack an Aeroflot plane on Thursday and the aircraft safely made an emergency landing in Prague, airline officials said. REUTERS/Petr Josek(CZECH REPUBLIC) 

Passengers return to the Russian A320 aircraft standing on the tarmac at Prague's Ruzyne airport December 28, 2006. Passengers overpowered a Russian man who tried to hijack an Aeroflot plane on Thursday and the aircraft safely made an emergency landing in Prague, airline officials said. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC) 

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (R) offers Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kassianov (L) a A320 model after the signature of a partnership agreement between European aircraft consortium Airbus and Russian airline Aeroflot in Toulouse, November 18, 2002. Airbus announced an order from Russia's Aeroflot for 18 A320 family planes as Raffarin and Kassianov attend a Franco-Russian intergovernmental meeting here. French Civil Service, Administrative Reform and Regional Development Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye (C Rear) and Industry Minister Nicole Fontaine (C Rear Right) look on. 

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (R) offers Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Kassianov (L) a A320 model after the signature of a partnership
agreement between European aircraft consortium Airbus and Russian airline
Aeroflot in Toulouse, November 18, 2002. Airbus announced an order from
Russia's Aeroflot for 18 A320 family planes as Raffarin and Kassianov attend
a Franco-Russian intergovernmental meeting here. French Civil Service,
Administrative Reform and Regional Development Minister Jean-Paul Delevoye
(C Rear) and Industry Minister Nicole Fontaine (C Rear Right) look on.
REUTERS/Jean-Philippe Arles

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A small group of protestors from the press freedom advocacy group
"Reporters without Frontiers" demonstrate against the visit to France
of Russian President Vladimir Putin by sticking posters of a young
Putin on the windows of the Russian airline Aeroflot offices on Paris's
famed Champs Elysees avenue, January 15, 2002. Putin will make a brief
one-day visit to Paris today during which he will hold talks at the
Elysee Palace with French President Jacques Chirac. REUTERS/Mal
Langsdon

MAL/ 

A small group of protesters from the press freedom advocacy group
"Reporters without Frontiers" demonstrate against the visit to France
of Russian President Vladimir Putin by sticking posters of a young
Putin on the windows of the Russian airline Aeroflot offices on Paris's
famed Champs Elysees avenue, January 15, 2002. Putin will make a brief
one-day visit to Paris today during which he will hold talks at the
Elysee Palace with French President Jacques Chirac. REUTERS/Mal
Langsdon

MAL/CLH/ 

A small group of protestors from the press freedom advocacy group
"Reporters without Frontiers" demonstrate against the visit to France
of Russian President Vladimir Putin by sticking posters of a young
Putin on the windows of the Russian airline Aeroflot offices on Paris's
famed Champs Elysees avenue, January 15, 2002. Putin will make a brief
one-day visit to Paris today during which he will hold talks at the
Elysee Palace with French President Jacques Chirac. REUTERS/Mal
Langsdon

MAL/CLH/ 

Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky speaks as he leaves the prosecutor's office in Moscow, followed by his bodyguard, October 17, 2000. Russian prosecutors and their Swiss counterparts are currently investigating allegations that Berezovsky was involved in the skimming off of funds at the state airline Aeroflot through two Swiss companies.

AS/AA 

Workers inspect damage done to a destroyed cosmetics shop owned by Marko Milosevic, [son of ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic] in Belgrade October 9, 2000, which was destroyed during clashes between opposition supporters and police on Thursday. Marko Milosevic was turned back at Beijing's airport on Monday after arriving on a flight from Moscow, an official with Russian airline Aeroflot said. It was not clear why Marko Milosevic, a macho playboy with an extensive business empire, came to Beijing, where the Communist government has been a staunch supporter of his father. 

Workers inspect damage done to a destroyed cosmetics shop owned by Marko Milosevic, son of ousted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade October 9, 2000, which was destroyed during clashes between opposition supporters and police on Thursday. Marko Milosevic was turned back at Beijing's airport on Monday after arriving on a flight from Moscow, an official with Russian airline Aeroflot said. It was not clear why Marko Milosevic, a macho playboy with an extensive business empire, came to Beijing, where the Communist government has been a staunch supporter of his father.

IM/CRB 

Swiss federal prosecutor Valentin Roschacher (R) welcomes Russian special investigator Nikolai Volkov (L) at the prosecutor's office in Berne July 26. Volkov, who is probing money laundering charges involving Aeroflot airlines and two Swiss-based firms, is in Switzerland to obtain related documents seized by Switzerland.

RS/ 

An unidentified member of the prosecutor's office gets into a car as a special police guards him after a police raid on a publishing house February 4. Russian prosecutors are investigating possible breaches of exchange control regulations by officials at the national flag carrier airline Aeroflot, the prosecutor-general's office said in a statement on Thursday.

MF/WS 

Valery Okulov, acting Aeroflot (Russian International Airlines) chief executive, gestures during a press conference, April 15. A contract worth 400 million US dollars is likekly to be signed between Aeroflot and Boeing for acquisition of 10 aircrafts in 1998-1999.

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Valery Okulov, President Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law, who was recently named as acting head of Aeroflot, Russia's state airline, is seen during a party March 14. Okulov, 45, who is married to Yeltsin's elder daughter Yelena, has been deputy head of the company before Yeltsin appointed the company's previous chief to his Kremlin staff.

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