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.
Russian investigators examining the crash of a UTair (UT) ATR 72-200 in Siberia have reversed earlier statements that icing was not considered a factor and now say they are looking into that possibility.
Russian and Belarusian aviation authorities have agreed to change their bilateral agreement, excluding frequencies and capacity limits on routes between the countries.
UTair (UT) has grounded all its ATR 72-200s following the crash of a UTair aircraft Monday morning shortly after taking off from Tyumen in Siberia on its way to Surgut, killing 31.
