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by JumpCrisscross 984 days ago
> the planes already were in Russia, foreign lenders can't seize them. But fines for non-delivery can still be taken in by seizing assets of the Russian companies in Western countries.

You can do the same thing to compensate the owners of the planes.
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mschuster91 984 days ago
No. You can't go and seize a random oligarch's assets to compensate the lenders of airplanes, and Aeroflot takes great care to avoid airspace where Western sanctions could hit them - the exception being Turkey, but they won't do anything that endangers their sort-of "neutrality".
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JumpCrisscross 984 days ago
> can't go and seize a random oligarch's assets to compensate the lenders of airplanes

You said "assets of the Russian companies." I'd curtail that to assets of the Russian state. Aeroflot is state owned. (It's why Aeroflot settled [1].)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aircraft-...

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