Yes, airports in eastern Europe are now using the old ground based VHF radio beacons (VOR, DME and ILS). However, they were not in use a few years ago. Some ai

Yes, airports in eastern Europe are now using the old ground based VHF radio beacons (VOR, DME and ILS). However, they were not in use a few years ago. Some airports never had the ground based equipment installed, others still had the beacons functional but the procedures (STAR, SID) had been phased out in favor of the easier and cheaper satellite based GNSS RNAV procedures. Some airports had brand new VHF equipment installed, others had the old procedures reinstated. But aviation is a slow moving, risk averse, cost sensitive business so several airports were inaccessible (apart from visual approach) for a few months.