Buy-to-let market losing its appeal.

RUSSIA is turning to the West in an attempt to revive its huge aerospace industry. Since the cold war, Russia's aircraft factories have suffered massive declines in orders for domestic and foreign military planes; their monopoly on making airliners for Aeroflot and other eastern European carriers has ceased.

The world market for civil aircraft is dominated by Boeing and Airbus and the "frontline" military sector for fighters and bombers is controlled by a handful of European and American contractors.

Russian export attempts have always been based on cost: its