Meeting of the State Commission for the Launch of Spacecraft Soyuz-2.1a • President of Russia
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Vladimir Putin visited the #Vostochny Space Launch Centre. The President also held a state commission meeting to examine the reasons for the postponement of the launch of a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket.
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I say that I will have the chance to thank everyone here who has worked conscientiously, but let me recall that there were also a #fair_few_problems. We ended up having to open six criminal cases, and four people were arrested. Two of them are under house arrest, it is true, and two others are in pre-trial detention. But if the guilt of those suspected of breaking the law is proven, they will have to exchange their warm beds at home for prison bunks, I have no doubt about this at all.
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I will not speak now about issues that need our particular attention. For example, the way we had to make heroic efforts to extract state money for the sector from banks acting more as private purses. This was not the only problem that needed our attention and is not directly related to high-tech production or to science and technology.