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 crew of the International Space Station has temporarily sealed the non-life-threatening air leak first noticed a year ago in the Russian Zvezda service module.
The first flight of Russia’s new spacecraft Oryol will take place in November or December of 2023, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos State Corp., told the TASS newswire earlier this month.
Recent comments by a senior Russian government official illustrate how authorities and aircraft manufacturers in the country are getting increasingly worried about losing access to Western technologies as political tensions between Russia, the U.S. and Europe rise.
