The SALIS thing is about chartering aircraft. The planes are still owned by Russian company, Volga-Dnepr, and Ukraine's ADB.
Politicaly , it's very hard for me to dig out but I know some legislation had to be changed in Russia and Ukraine to make this deals possible. Maybe some of it must still pass the Ukrainean parliament.
Must be interesting to hear this debates.
About technology : Russians do the same thing as the USA : their top-military know-how is well protected, but building aircraft for commercial use, is increasingly done by joint ventures. The Russians are building now a new series of An-124; the cockpit screens and data-processing units are produced here in Belgium only 5km from my place.

My next plane-thing will go over the Airbus 400 Military aircraft. I'm trying to find what's all behind it, there seems to be a Russian connection to, but I didn't find confirmation so far.
Indeed, on that level , planes have a political significance.


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)