... have a good program, but Russian aviation is dead and there is no opportunity to bring it back. We are just modernizing everything being built in the 1980s,” said Magomet Tolboyev, a former test pilot who worked for the flight institute. Roman Gusarov, editor of Avia.ru, an aviation industry website, also questions the center’s creation. “You have to develop people for the aviation industry over years. You can’t give an order and bring people and their families to a new place...

... with the policies implemented by carriers in other countries, a State Duma deputy said Wednesday. But some industry insiders warned that the lists could be used to settle personal scores. Airlines take a risk in carrying unruly passengers, said Roman Gusarov, an editor of aviation portal Avia.ru. But if "today we make a blacklist of these people, tomorrow it will be a blacklist of opposition-minded passengers," he said. The idea to create the blacklists was first voiced by Aeroflot CEO Vitaly...

... Krasnoyarsk-Divnogorsk commuter train, which passes by Ovsyanka. What to do with the kids The Krasnoyarsk Circus (143a Prospekt Imeni Gazety Krasnoyarsky Rabochy; +7 391-233-1455; krascirk.ru ) has welcomed many renowned artists, like tiger tamers from the Bagdasarov dynasty and members of the Moscow Nikulin Circus. Performances take place twice a day, with tickets starting at 300 rubles. Royev Ruchei (293 Sverdlovskaya Ulitsa; +7 391-269-8101; roev.ru ) is one of the biggest zoos in Russia. Occupying more...

... terrain in Java, so you need to plan every step of the flight to the centimeter,” he told Kommersant FM radio. Sukhoi has insisted that all pre-flight preparations were conducted properly and that the plane was in good working order. Roman Gusarov, editor-in-chief of the Avia.ru website, told The Moscow Times that reputational damage would be difficult to avoid, whatever the outcome of the investigation. “Whether or not it turns out to have been a technical fault or pilot error, this...

... was looking to be the most likely reason for the plane’s disappearance by Wednesday evening. “Although the plane was new and the onboard equipment was modern, it was still raw and had not been tested through to completion,” Roman Gusarov, the editor of aviation website Avia.ru, told The Moscow Times. The weather in that region of Indonesia, the western half of the island of Java, was overcast Wednesday with low-hanging clouds, said Sergei Dolya, a Russian blogger on the Asian tour...

... Brigitte Baumann said. The U.S. market tends to be at least three to five times larger, she added. Only 30 percent of angel investors in Russia are really active — people who understand their role and search for strategic partners, said Tatyana Komissarova, director of the center for marketing innovation at the Higher School of Economics. State Role The government has taken an active role in facilitating financing for startups by investing just over 30 billion rubles ($1 billion) into Russian Venture...