Originally Posted by
Concerto
When I flew MUC-SVO-KUF, i.e. Munich to Samara with a transfer in Moscow Domodedovo I did not have to collect my baggage and reclaim it like in the USA. I was fully expecting to have to do this and hung around in the baggage hall for a while, asking a couple of people. But they assured me it would turn up in Samara and it did. This was on S7 Airlines.
So where did you pass through customs with your suitcase? DME (not SVO, which is Moscow Sheremetyevo) to Samara would be a domestic flight, so did your suitcase effectively bypass customs?!