Russia's Rapidly Evaporating Space Program

Russia slashes space funding by 30 pct as crisis weighs, Reuters
“Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev agreed to slash funding for Russia’s space programme by 30 percent on Thursday, an effort to reign in state spending in the face of a deepening economic crisis. Approving a plan submitted by Russian space agency Roscosmos in January, Medvedev ordered Russia’s space programme budget for 2016-2025 to be cut from 2 trillion roubles ($29.24 billion) to 1.4 trillion roubles.”
– Large Budget Cuts To Russia’s Space Program, earlier post
– Russian Space Follies, earlier post
– Earlier Russia news