Baikonur Cosmodrome Could Stop Receiving Financing in 2016

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Baikonur Cosmodrome Could Stop Receiving Financing in 2016
by Staff Writers
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 05, 2014

Baikonur, an international spaceport, was built in 1955.

Russian Ministry of Finance might stop financing Baikonur cosmodrome in 2016, Izvestia newspaper reported Friday citing a source in Roscosmos.

"In previous versions of draft budget for 2016 it was planned to allocate a $705 million (2.5 billion rubles) subsidy for Baikonur maintenance.

The money was supposed to be spent on salaries and field maintenance. We asked for more. But when our representative in Ministry of Finance was shown the final draft there was zero," the official from the Federal Space Agency was quoted as saying.

According to the newspaper, this could mean the whole teams of specialists at Baikonur will be left without financing.

The report also said that Ministry of Finance allegedly made such decision due to the construction of the new Vostochniy cosmodrome, which will now receive the money that previously went to Baikonur.

Baikonur, an international spaceport, was built in 1955. Russia leases Baikonur from Kazakhstan for $115 million annually. The current lease contract between the two countries expires in 2050.

Source: RIA Novosti

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