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 Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow, an MRO branch of Volga-Dnepr Group, has been awarded a Russian Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) 285 certificate to perform maintenance on Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft.
The Russian government is ready to invest up to RUB530 million ($8.3 million) in assembly of the revived Let L-410 in the Ural region before the end of the year.