The ban on the use of resources and financial transactions slows the priority work area in Baikonur, the construction of a new launch pad for the Russian Soyuz-5 rocket.
Kazakhstan has seized the property of TsENKI (Terrestrial Space Infrastructure Operations Center) operating in Baikonur, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, and plans to repay a debt of 13.5 billion tenge ($26.3 million) from it. This was reported by local edition KZ24 today, March 13.
The ban on the use of resources and financial transactions slows the priority work area at Baikonur, the construction of a new launch pad for the Soyuz-5 rocket.
The official reason for this was a debt of 13.5 billion tenge or 2 billion rubles to the Joint Kazakh-Russian Company Baiterek JSC. The debt arose as a result of work on the EIA (environmental impact assessment) of the Soyuz-5 rocket. The use of resources and financial transactions are slowing down the priority work area in Baikonur, the construction of a new launch pad for the Soyuz-5 rocket. The media emphasizes that this could lead to Russia’s withdrawal from Baikonur.
“Misbehavior”, named as the main reason for the arrest, and the harsh statements of the new head of Roskosmos, Yuri Borisov. In particular, we are talking about criticism of the delay in launching the launch pad, a project carried out by the Deputy Minister of Communications of Kazakhstan, Baghdad Musin, in charge of space direction. In response, Musin called Borisov’s criticism a “diplomatic miscalculation”.
What is Baikonur?
The Baikonur complex, leased by Russia from Kazakhstan, consists of the city of Baikonur and the cosmodrome of the same name. More than 76.5 thousand people live in the city, of which about 60% are citizens of Kazakhstan, about 37% are Russians. The head of the Baikonur administration is appointed by decree of the presidents of both countries.
Previously Focus He said that they started to recruit local people for the war in Ukraine in the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, which was leased on a long-term lease from the Russian Federation. All volunteers who signed a contract for “military service” in the war zone on the territory of Ukraine were promised to pay 260 thousand rubles (about 3.5 thousand dollars).
Today, March 13, the President of Kazakhstan said that the country should get rid of the practice of opening monuments and busts to figures from the Soviet era, as many of them were involved in mass repressions.
In addition, Kazakhstan’s trade representation in Russia was closed in February. The relevant decision was made by the Kazakh government.
Meanwhile, on March 9, it was learned that France, Hungary and Bulgaria blocked EU sanctions against the Russian nuclear energy sector, including Rosatom.
Source: Focus
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