Polina joined the Air Transport World team in 2011, covering Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a journalist for Russian business and airline publications since 2000. She has previously worked for Russky Telegraf 1997-1998, Russia Journal 1999-2000, the Vremya Novostei newspaper 2000-2001, the Russky Focus business weekly 2001-2004 and the Kompania business weekly in 2004-2005.
Starting as a journalist for Air Transport Observer Magazine in 2005, she had become deputy editor by the time she left in 2014, moving to Germany.
She has also written and edited a number of surveys and editorial on airline, aircraft and travel issues for a number of Russian and international publications.
She lives with her husband, twins, and a dog and cat in Cyprus.
Russia’s lower legislative house, the State Duma, will consider adding European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) amendments to its environmental protection law, which were put in place 10 years ago.
Russian airlines carried 32 million passengers during the first half, a 17% increase over the year-ago period, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency/Rosaviatsia said in a statement.
Russia’s Irkut Corp. has elected United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) SVP Oleg Demchenko as its president and chairman following the early resignation of Alexey Fedorov, UAC said in a statement.
