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China’s civil aviation authority has banned over five-hundred Russian airliners from the country’s airspace. Subject aircraft were effectively stolen from lessors by Russian Airlines operating in accordance with an apocryphal edict issued by Russia’s Aviation Authority. The surreal story derives of escalating diplomatic strain between Moscow and the West, and increasingly stringent trade restrictions levied against Russia in the wake of its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.