Machinbird, in the cockpit pic in your post here:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/5...ml#post9629847 in between the two controls you circled in red, the black-handled flaps deploy control labelled закрылки (flaps) and gear control labelled шасси (gear), we see another control also labelled закрылки (flaps).
Anyone know what that middle flaps control does?