Overview

• Reuters reports that Moscow filed documents asking ICAO to help ease restrictions on aircraft parts, maintenance, insurance, and overflight access.
• The Russian papers argue the curbs threaten flight safety and cite airspace closures by 37 countries and suspended airworthiness certificates.
• The Transport Ministry says a delegation led by Deputy Minister Vladimir Poteshkin will attend the 42nd Assembly in Montreal from September 23 to October 3 and lobby to rejoin the 36‑member Council after failing to win a seat in 2022.
• Russia links the timing to recent U.S. steps that allowed certain transactions with Belarus’s Belavia, though broader sanctions and bans remain in place.
• Observers note ICAO can set standards and mediate disputes but cannot overturn measures imposed by individual states.