A PZL Sokol W-3A is operated by the saxonian police in Germany. First they operated 2 but sadly they lost one including crew in january 2005 may be due to LTE. The single pilot was absolutely unexperienced, with 300h completely and 30 on type, not to understand. Have it flown first on a visit in Swidnik in 1992 before the western certification and later again. Can confirm it's interesting, but the TBO's are also low. The ship is also cheap and in my opinion more worth to do a look on it as to the russian ships. PZL isn't very great and fast with spare parts but they have the things better under control than the russians. The W-3A is a nice and strong ship FAA and JAA approved, completely western avionics, glass cockpit, FLIR, NVG, Hoist, nearly anything you want, up to 14 pax, or VIP, nice to fly but MTOW is also more than 6to on a payload round about 2to.
If anybody is interested on eastern models thats the only ship i would take a look.