Honestly, we should have dealt with this two months ago when Aeroflot tickets were 16k. We dragged our feet. At least we finally got on it. A bit earlier, I stumbled upon a link to an interesting site (/www.kayak.com), where we ended up choosing a company called Delta for our Sheremetyevo-Kennedy flight on May 17th, with prices starting from 710 dollars. True, with taxes it turned out to be around 23 thousand, but that's still better than the 29 from Aeroflot.

Now we're walking along Gogolevsky Boulevard, looking at our tickets (we're returning on August 24th), and starting to realize that this is all very real.