Short memory from a country that used to have the largest airline in the world.;)

Indeed so but the world has changed much since those days. Sadly Aeroflot is a mere shadow of the Goliath that it once was. IMO in these days of “free market” Stalinism (no pun intended) the Russians may well have to bite the bullet on this one and come to terms with the current airline operating environment, or risk financial damage to this smaller and less imposing Aeroflot. I do suspect however that the ghosts of Aeroflot Soviet Airlines still walk the corridors of its younger and smaller sibling 😉