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August 05, 2014

Baikonur Cosmodrome Could Stop Receiving Financing in 2016
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2014
Russian Ministry of Finance might stop financing Baikonur cosmodrome in 2016, Izvestia newspaper reported Friday citing a source in Roscosmos. "In previous versions of draft budget for 2016 it was planned to allocate a $705 million (2.5 billion rubles) subsidy for Baikonur maintenance. The money was supposed to be spent on salaries and field maintenance. We asked for more. But when our representative in Ministry of Finance was shown the final draft there was zero," the official from the Fede ... read more

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