I believe Russian manufacturers can make cheaper products than what Airbus and Boeing are offering, by cheaper i mean not compremising in quality whatsoever but taking advantage of its cheap industrial labour and colaborating with its allies such as India who are growing names in the world aviation sector. The Indo-Russian light commuter aircraft project by HAL and Sukhoi should be approached with a good interest by Russia. If Russians do what they are capable of they can easily tap the markets in Asia and S.E. Asia with CIS, which in the future is a majour economicaly growing part of the world. And who knows, if they make a decent aircraft operators from Europe and USA also could show interest.