Sanctioned Russian Airlines Acquire U.S.-Made Technology.

Despite sanctions imposed on Russia, thousands of shipments of aircraft parts were successfully sent into the country last year, according to Russian customs data obtained by The New York Times. The data shows that tens of millions of dollars of aircraft parts were sent to Russian airlines, including Aeroflot, Rossiya Airlines, Ural Airlines, S7 Airlines, Utair Aviation, and Pobeda Airlines. Illicit networks have sprung up to try to bypass the restrictions by shuffling goods through a series of straw buyers, often in the Middle East and Asia. The shipments also increased over the course of last year as Russia recruited global businesses to help it bypass the sanctions.