Russia to press on with MS-21 and Superjet airliner projects
Russia said on Wednesday it would accelerate the development of its domestic civilian aerospace sector by focusing on flagship airliner projects such as the Irkut MS-21, also known as the MC-21, and the Sukhoi Superjet. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands, displaced more than 3 million people and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States, the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. After the United States and Europe cut it off from swathes of the global economy with retaliatory sanctions, Russia is facing its gravest economic crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. “There has been no halt to the work of these enterprises and there will be none. Everyone is continuing work,” Deputy PM Yuri Borisov said, according to a government statement. “I stress again - we will press on with the implementation of our MS-21 and SSJ-100 flagship projects,” he said. Borisov said Russia’s military aerospace industry had thrived despite working under sanctions since 2014, when Crimea was annexed from Ukraine. But he acknowledged that the situation was more difficult for the civilian sector as so many projects depended on international cooperation. <br/>
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Russia to press on with MS-21 and Superjet airliner projects
Russia said on Wednesday it would accelerate the development of its domestic civilian aerospace sector by focusing on flagship airliner projects such as the Irkut MS-21, also known as the MC-21, and the Sukhoi Superjet. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed thousands, displaced more than 3 million people and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the United States, the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. After the United States and Europe cut it off from swathes of the global economy with retaliatory sanctions, Russia is facing its gravest economic crisis since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union. “There has been no halt to the work of these enterprises and there will be none. Everyone is continuing work,” Deputy PM Yuri Borisov said, according to a government statement. “I stress again - we will press on with the implementation of our MS-21 and SSJ-100 flagship projects,” he said. Borisov said Russia’s military aerospace industry had thrived despite working under sanctions since 2014, when Crimea was annexed from Ukraine. But he acknowledged that the situation was more difficult for the civilian sector as so many projects depended on international cooperation. <br/>
