Kansas City area man enters plea in Russian aviation export case

A Kansas City-area man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal criminal charges accusing him of conspiring with a business partner to illegally export aviation-related technology to Russia, even after its invasion of Ukraine. Douglas Edward Robertson's plea to 26 criminal counts came a day after his business partner, Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, pleaded guilty to two of those charges and agreed to the U.S. government's seizure of $500,000 of assets, most of them held by their company, KanRus Trading Co. Prosecutors have alleged that KanRus supplied aircraft electronics to Russian companies...