Anybody remember the incident 10 years ago or so, where an Aeroflot pilot let his 13 or 14 year old son get his hands on the yoke? Plane went into an unrecoverable dive and slammed into the ground, killing all aboard. I can tell you from first hand experience, on their domestic flights, Aeroflot crews aren't exactly obsessive compulsive about enforcing the rules we take for granted on US flights. I was a pretty popular guy on the flight from Moscow to Baku. I had brought along a bag of the snack size Snickers. Evidently there was nothing produced in the Soviet Union to compare, judging by the reaction of the young Communists sitting around me.
