<h1>Illegal export of aviation parts to Russia results in conviction; senators urge pulse-crop concessions in India trade talks</h1> US legal enforcement: an individual was sentenced in the United States for conspiring to illegally export aviation components from Oregon to Russia; operative effect: conviction and imprisonment under U.S. criminal export-control enforcement for unlawful diversion of controlled aviation parts. Trade negotiation advocacy: U.S. Senators wrote to the President urging inclusion of favourable pulse-crop provisions in a trade agreement with India; operative effect: political pressure intended to secure specific agricultural concessions within the bilateral trade negotiations.