From the linked article, described by the Swedish airforce as '"particularly serious" given the current situation, [who] called the Russian actions unprofessional and irresponsible.'
"NATO says Russian aircraft violated European airspace nearly 300 times in 2019" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-aircraft-violate-eur...
However I cannot recall any incidents of the type:
"French Mirages violate Russian Airspace"
"Swedish Grippens's buzz Russian Cruiser..."
or
"UK Jets cross into Russian airspace"
Not saying they do not happen, just that I can't recall any. Do you have some examples?
You're gonna have to search for news from those countries instead. Try "нарушение воздушного пространства россии" on yandex, or "侵犯中国领空的行为" on baidu. English news hardly ever write about English-speaking countries violating other countries airspace, while the opposite is true too, you won't find news about Russians violating other countries airspace in Russian news.
Do you have a specific event?
The U-2 and SR-71 flew deep into Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
We repeatedly enter Russia's ADIZ (https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/politics/russian-fighter-jets...) and China's (https://breakingdefense.com/2013/11/chinas-new-defense-zone-...) and explicitly do not acknowledge other nations' ADIZs for military aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zon...)
https://twitter.com/SCS_PI/status/1373886128177041410
Well inside China's ADIZ.
(I'd also note the article with the headline "Russian aircraft violated European airspace nearly 300 times" actually uses "flying close to NATO airspace" in the text. Russia's doing the same thing we do - fly close, violating ADIZs, and testing responses.)
Tribunal Rejects Beijing’s Claims in South China Sea https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/world/asia/south-china-se...
I'm talking about the one labeled "ADIZ China" along the coast, seen on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JADIZ_and_CADIZ_and_....
Mixing up ADIZs with national airspace muddies the waters.
Even if a number of those 300 occurrences were 'near' NATO airspace and only a portion were actual violations, that's still far more violations of NATO airspace by Russia than there have been NATO violations of Russian airspace.
Yes, I know. That's what I think the article is doing.
The same happens on coverage of China and Taiwan - the incursions always wind up just being going into the ADIZ (and Taiwan's ADIZ extends over mainland China, for extra complexity), but are breathlessly covered as if China's breaking the 12 mile limit.
I agree that media reports that mistake the Taiwanese ADIZ for airspace are wrong and should be strongly criticised, but you're wrong to assume the same context is true for Russia and Europe.
Articles should distinguish between them, then. A headline of "Russian aircraft violated European airspace nearly 300 times" with "flying close to NATO airspace" in the actual copy is irresponsible journalism.
In your response you wrongly asserted that was the case and you did so by confusing ADIZs with airspace.
It’s not a terrible failing to be mistaken, but refusing to acknowledge an error is the wrong approach.
"Tactics typically deployed by Russian pilots include a practice of deliberately failing to report flight plans, ignoring civilian air traffic controllers and switching off their on-board transponders that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg refers to as "flying dark" an approach which he said was inherently unsafe and poses a serious risk to civilian air traffic."
"Russia has long history of airspace violations" https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/russia-has-long-history-of...
> Military aircraft are not required by international law to file flight plans with a country’s Air Traffic Service before flying through their Flight Information Region (FIR)...
We violate airspace from time to time: https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/02/us/us-spy-plane/index.html
> The quickest route away from the Russians took them into Swedish airspace. The U.S. official acknowledged that was done without Swedish military approval.
> As a result of this incident, the United States is discussing the matter with Sweden and letting officials know there may be further occurrences where American jets have to divert so quickly they may not be able to wait for permission.
And we fuck around with transponders: https://news.yahoo.com/u-spy-plane-impersonates-malaysian-13...
> A U.S. Air Force aircraft electronically impersonated a Malaysian plane while flying over the South China Sea this week. The RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft flew off China’s Hainan island on Tuesday, coming within 55 miles of the Chinese mainland.
While Russia routinely violates the national airspace (not ADIZs) of European countries there are few to no similar cases of European (or even American) military aircraft doing the same to Russian airspace in the past 30 years. This is a very asymmetric escalation & intimidation.