From: Adam 

Adam wrote:
>
http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=Russia+EADS&btnG=Search+News
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> Russia is buying a stake in EADS. Methinks they'll up it & that it's
> been agreed in one of the Russo-Franco-German meetings which the whole
> Iraq adventure created.
>
> It would not surprise me to see a steady amalgamation of the
> EU/Franco-German mil-industrial complex & the RUssian one with then
> (later) a PRC involvement.
>
> UK > JSF/America, Germany/France > Russia inc sukhoi, mig etc.
>
> The Franco-German bit might also help the Ukrainians get invovled (esp
> Antonov).
>
> They're getting up onto their feet again & this time as
> semi-Europeans......
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> Adam
Oh &

"Vedomosti's report comes as Russia plans to relax its curbs on
foreign investment in commercial aviation projects to allow foreign capital
to own stakes of up to 49 percent. Currently foreign companies can own less
than 25 percent.

The move appears in line with a trend of consolidating state control over
strategic Russian industries and then inviting foreign companies as
minority shareholders.

EADS is posed to become the primary foreign partner in the newly created
state-controlled aircraft holding firm Russian United Aircraft Corporation,
set up in February in an effort to consolidate Russian plane makers into
one body, after it bought a 10 percent stake in private combat plane maker
Irkut.

Irkut, one of two makers of Sukhoi fighter jets, is expected to provide the
core of the Unified Aircraft management team, analysts say."


Adam

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