Tear the sky to shreds : Russia s space program director releases album
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St Petersburg: Austerity measures are gripping the Russian space agency Roscosmos, with management facing up to a 20 per cent salary hit and staff layoffs predicted.
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Kommersant reported this month that top officials were fired at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a vast spaceport being built in Russia s Far East. Accusations of corruption have surrounded the spaceport s construction since the release of a report last year by opposition leader Alexei Navalny s now-defunct Anti-Corruption Foundation.
People watch a Soyuz-FG rocket booster carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blast off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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The 2015 Iran nuclear deal is worth reviving â and improving
President-elect Joe Biden and his advisors will need to be lucid, persistent, and innovative if they hope to succeed in a new round of negotiations with the rulers in Tehran.
By Alan BergerUpdated December 23, 2020, 3:00 a.m.
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President Hassan Rouhani of Iran at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, September 2019. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran.Brittainy Newman/NYT
The assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the scientist in charge of Iranâs suspended nuclear weapons program, has made it harder than it already was for the incoming Biden administration to return to the nuclear deal struck with Iran in 2015. And it would be naive to think this was not the aim of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the likely dispatcher of the assassins, and of President Trump, who, at the least, would have had to sign off o
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