FILE PHOTO: American musician and company co-founder David Arthur Brown gives an interview at the factory of Soyuz Microphones in the city of Tula, Russia, July 21, 2025. With a team of about 60 workers, the company makes microphones by hand and from scratch at its two-storey Soviet-era factory in a city south of Moscow and exports Russian-made Soyuz microphones to Europe, the United States, China and beyond. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo