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Putin Wants To Jail Spaceport Employees

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 27, 2016
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Putin Wants To Jail Spaceport Employees

Humiliated Putin warns Russia’s botched spaceport officials they will be JAILED, Daily Mail
“Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned workers at the country’s botched spaceport they will be jailed after he flew thousands of miles to watch the inaugural rocket launch for it to be cancelled at the last minute.”
After failed launch, Putin demands answers on billion-dollar spaceport negligence, Russia Today
“Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says those responsible for crimes during the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome won’t escape responsibility if their guilt is proven, and will swap house arrest for prison bunks. “Six criminal cases had to be launched, in which four people were arrested. Two of them, however, are under house arrest, while the other two are in pre-trial detention,” Putin is cited as saying by Interfax.”
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19 responses to “Putin Wants To Jail Spaceport Employees”

  1. Tritium3H says:
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    I don’t know about you guys…but I have missed the good old Cold War. Glad that Putin is determined to get the band back together.

    • mfwright says:
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      Maybe return to communism where there is no private business (or private anything) so pocketing huge sums of money is meaningless (I think that is how that works but maybe the payoffs would be for Party favorites).

  2. duheagle says:
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    The beatings will continue until morale improves.

    • TerryG says:
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      Beatings certainly would have been on the cards, if Putin was picking up the tab for project James Webb.

      • Neil.Verea says:
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        Actually it would be the other Russian motto “heads will roll” literally

      • SouthwestExGOP says:
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        TerryG You need to study up on your English some, in Russian you do not have “the” but we do in English. Your sentence fragment should have read “the James Webb project” for instance.

        • savuporo says:
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          In Soviet Russia, there is no need for articles, Putin makes everything definite by default

    • ProfSWhiplash says:
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      Politburo motto: We’re not happy, comrade; until you’re not happy.

  3. Michael Spencer says:
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    Disappointed at a re-scheduled launch? I wonder just how little he knows about the space industry- or anything else for that matter.

    Cant count the number of times I’ve driven up from Naples to the Cape- not a short jaunt- only to be ‘disappointed’ because STS was delayed. It’s just part of the deal, that’s all.

    • duheagle says:
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      A little of Putin’s inner King Canute coming out I suspect.

  4. Neil.Verea says:
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    Not really a dilemma, they just set vivid public examples of what happens when you disagree with them

  5. mfwright says:
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    I cannot help but think in comparison to a television program about the H-bomb last night mentioned Stalin wanted a working bomb to keep up with the US. He drafted a list of scientists and engineers to work on this program, this same list was also who he will have executed if they don’t get a working bomb.

  6. Dewey Vanderhoff says:
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    Don’t send them to the gulags, Vlad. They’ve got more launch pads to build for you at Vostochny . One up, only six to go. What could possibly go wrong ? Besides, Moscow is only seven time zones away…

  7. fcrary says:
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    I’ve got mixed feelings about saying anything, since I don’t care for most of Mr. Putin’s policies. But… Let’s be fair about this.

    He wasn’t talking about arresting people over the launch delay. It sounds like he was very unhappy about it, but not making threats over that. He did say the people responsible for the disaster building that spaceport has been, ought to, if convicted, spend a long time in an unpleasant prison. If anything similar happened in the US, I’d expect an American President to say the same thing.

    Of course, and no longer trying to be fair, I would also expect an American President to have different views about what “if convicted” means, as well as due process of law and prison conditions. At least, based on what I read in the BBC’s website, Mr. Putin and I have different ideas about those things.

    • Michael Spencer says:
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      Oh, come on. Don’t be such a spoil sport with like facts and such when we are having such a good time with ole Vlad.

      • brobof says:
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        More facts FWIIW “Vova” not Vlad
        wiki quote: In East Slavic languages, short versions of the name are Vova, Volodka, Volodya (but not Vlad, which is common short version for other Slavic name – *Vladislav*) In other West and South Slavic countries, other pet or boy versions are used: e.g., Vladi, Vlada, Vlado, Vladko, Vlatko, Vladik, Wladik, Wladek, Wlodik and Wlodek.”
        🙂

  8. Shaw_Bob says:
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    The UK’s ‘Daily Fail’ is hardly the journal of record – it specialises in stuff that is, to be kind, ‘wrong’.