At my airline we train Air Astana pilot's CQ. Many of them are Russians and I recently was told that "the russian government did pass a document allowing up to 200 foreign pilots to fly for russian airlines.
Aeroflot had a group of 10 go through some sort of company indoc class, but after looking at accommodations and real pay they all left."
Word by word. Would love to hear from those who actually have gone there.