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undergoing scheduled maintenance and crashed just over an hour after taking off, according to the TASS news agency.
The number of passenger aircraft with a valid airworthiness certificate (AWC) in the fleets of 13 major Russian airlines decreased by 3% to 693 aircraft from the end of October 2023 to June 26, 2024. Such data is provided in the list of operators admitted to commercial transportation, which is maintained by Rosaviatsia. Vedomosti has reviewed the document.
The State Duma, with the participation of the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Antimonopoly Service, plans to set price ceilings for certain categories of air tickets by the end of the year, a source familiar with the discussion told Kommersant. There are no exact dates for the development of the initiative yet, but the matter will clearly not be limited to talk: the work on the document was confirmed to Kommersant by the former Deputy Minister of Transport, and now the head of the transport committee in the State Duma, Evgeny Moskvichev. And the author of the project, deputy Nikolai Kharitonov, said that a price ceiling should be established for preferential categories of passengers and on a number of additional routes. The conditions may be similar to the control over Russian Railways transportation, where prices in second-class and general carriages are regulated by the FAS.
Russia to produce own version of Boeing, Airbus spare parts due to sanctions. Russia will start producing spare air parts for Boeing and Airbus aircraft due to sanctions restricting the import of these components from abroad, Russian news outlet Izvestia reported on July 10.
9.1.4 Construction & Real estate sector news
In the first half of 2024, sales of elite real estate in Moscow grew by exactly a third, to 185 billion rubles, Kommersant writes, citing research by market participants. Expensive new buildings grew at an accelerated pace — 116 billion rubles, plus 78%.
In physical terms, 840 transactions were registered in the sector, which is almost twice as many as in the first half of 2023. In total, 1,360 transactions were concluded in the premium segments last year.
The "elite" trend has sharply diverged from the mass market, undermined by rising rates and the curtailment of mass preferential mortgages. Demand in the Moscow primary housing market of the mass segment (within the Moscow Ring Road) fell by 36%.
Demand in the elite sector is growing along with prices. According to the results of the second quarter, the average price per square meter of new elite housing increased by 17.6% year-on-year, to 1.4 million rubles. The average
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