RUSSIAN GROUP EYES FOKKER.

The de Volkskrant newspaper reported May 3 that the Russian government has earmarked funds for a Russian aerospace consortium to take control of the aircraft assembly, service, and maintenance units of Fokker NV. The Dutch aircraft assembler went bankrupt March 15. A Swiss bank advising the Russian group–dubbed Russian Aircraft Manufacturing–told the newspaper that a financing package for the deal was close to being completed. (Reuter, May 3)

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