Some of Strelets's older sets are completely sold out. And I noticed that the Jacobites sets disappeared from all of the dealers sites. This is surely not the most popular period in the hobby so if these sets sell out other more mainstream sets must be selling well. The Hannants future release page had the Jacobites listed as due for re-release, I'll buy some more.
It seems people are buying Strelets sets so I hope they're doing OK.
Regarding Zvezda, I read somewhere that the man running the company died and that the new management had different ideas about the direction the company should go, i.e. the small gaming piece sets.
Since the game systems seem to have flopped in various degrees I wonder if there's any chance they will go back to making proper sets.They are at least restocking their existing large sets.