In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine (www.ato.ru). In the past he was in charge of several ATO sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for the Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.
Maxim has a degree on international relations from MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia, and for several years worked at the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Russian Defense Ministry was cited by local media as saying a Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter was shot down on Nov. 9 near the Armenian village of Yeraskh.
Russian LCC Pobeda no longer plans to take delivery of 30 Boeing 737 MAX narrowbodies for which it had signed a letter of intent, according to the airline’s CEO Andrey Kalmykov.
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two kits for manufacturing Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopters to Kazakhstan, which will host the first foreign assembly line of the Russian rotorcraft.
