Domodedovo Airport, about 40km south of Moscow, is the largest airport in Russia that is still in private ownership, for now at least. It flies to destinations in Central Asia and Africa and opened a new terminal ahead of the 2018 World Cup held in Russia. Up to 30,000 passengers travel through it annually. But it has found itself at the centre of a Kremlin nationalisation drive that seeks to seize critical assets – with an Irish-registered company at a Dundalk address caught up in the drama. After the fall of communism, the 1990s saw a wave of privatisation of…

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