Rogozin: it is shame to buy foreign aircraft
Read on the website Vestnik KavkazaRussia plans to abandon the acquisition of foreign civil aircraft and start its own aircraft industry, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said at a meeting on aviation development.
He stressed that the authorities do not intend to buy planes abroad, if they can be made in Russia.
"It's a tough barrier, which we impose to protect the domestic market, based on the fact that we are a great aviation power, and it is a shame to buy foreign aircraft," TASS cited him as saying.