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The Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in Space, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Director General of the State Corporation of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, comments:
1. The restrictions are illegal, however, like any other sanction previously imposed against Russian natural and legal persons.
2. The restrictions are stupid because companies arbitrarily attributed to “military end users” are not and never have been the “military end users”. For example, TsNIIMash is the leading scientific institute in the industry; It includes the ISS Mission Control Center, with a group of NASA specialists permanently present there. Don’t you know that there is nothing there that can connect this institute with military research? Or, for example, RSC Progress, which somehow also made it onto this sanctions list. This Samara company manufactures the legendary Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, with the help of which the Soyuz MS spacecraft has been bringing American astronauts to the ISS for 10 years. Now, it turns out, our American colleagues have their ‘springboard working’ again, and the first thing they did was spit into Samara’s well. Isn’t it too early, folks, in case your ‘springboard’ suddenly breaks again and you have to indulge your passion for space from our well again?
3. These sanctions are damaging, because they will create additional obstacles and irritations in such an important Russian-American cooperation in space and on the ISS in particular.
Therefore, in the interest of preserving our common cause, I demand that the United States government immediately lift these sanctions against our companies. We will assume that this is a “misunderstanding”.
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