BRICS bank NDB says not considering new projects in Russia
Reuters skrev:The New Development Bank (NDB), the multilateral bank set up by the BRICS states, is not considering new projects in Russia as it operates in line with restrictions imposed in financial and capital markets, its head said on Wednesday.
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Rousseff, who is also a former president of Brazil, said she will have a bilateral meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin later in the day on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, but its purpose would be discussing "the role of the NDB in the upcoming BRICS Summit."
BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are scheduled to gather in the African country next month. Putin will not attend.
Putin har skapat en ny världsordning, men det blev inte alls som han hade tänkt sig: Ryssland är numera en pariastat även bland Brics-länderna.
African leaders seek grain commitments at Russia summit with Putin
Reuters skrev:Chicago wheat futures, a benchmark of global prices, have risen around 20% since Russia ended the deal on July 17. They are now at their highest levels since February, though well below their peaks of 2022.
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Russia says 49 African delegations will take part but only 17 heads of state - sharply down from the 45 who attended the last such event in 2019. It accuses the West of trying to sabotage the event by dissuading leaders from coming.
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Some have had strong ties with Moscow since the Cold War; many are sympathetic to Putin's idea of countering U.S. dominance in a new "multipolar" world order.
Toppmötet mellan afrikanska länder och Ryssland är det andra sedan 2019. Antalet deltagande stats- och regeringschefer har dock mer än halverats.
Kazakhstan to postpone testing of Baiterek launching complex for two years due to geopolitical situation
Kursiv skrev:The government of Kazakhstan has decided to postpone testing of the space rocket complex Baiterek designed for medium-lift launch vehicles at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The pause for 2023 to 2025 is due to the current geopolitical situation in the world, according to the protocol on changes to the agreement between Kazakhstan and Russia on the creation of the space rocket complex Baiterek at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Russia is leasing the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan up to 2050. In 2019, the media reported that Russia was planning to use the medium-lift launch vehicle Soyuz-5 until 2062. The launches were supposed to start in 2023. Soyuz-5 was designed as a substitute for the Zenit rocket designed by Russia and Ukraine. This project was closed due to the conflict between the two countries.
Har Rysslands civila rymdprogram någon framtid efter att ISS har tagits ur bruk? Kina behöver inte längre Ryssland, och snart har även Indien gått om.
Enceladus skrev: ↑onsdag 29 mars 2023 0:31
Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone
WSJ skrev:Before the war, Oleg Mansurov dreamed of competing with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. After the invasion, investors in Mr. Mansurov’s Moscow-based SR Space pulled their funds.
Russia’s Space Program Reels After Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
Bloomberg skrev:Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, needs a win. Since the invasion it’s lost customers such as London-based satellite operator OneWeb Ltd. and South Korea’s space agency, cutting off a valuable source of foreign funding. The European Space Agency last year pulled out of Luna-25 and a joint mission to Mars. China, which in 2021 reached a preliminary agreement with Russia to establish a joint research station on the moon, has taken to calling it a “China-led” project. And in December and again in February, a pair of Roscosmos vehicles at the International Space Station (ISS) suffered coolant leaks and couldn’t complete their missions. Russia’s space program “is a story of poor execution, low funding and poor quality control,” says Maxime Puteaux, an analyst with Euroconsult.
Yury Borisov, a former deputy prime minister who took over as director general of Roscosmos a year ago, concedes that Russia has fallen behind other big spacefaring nations. While the US last year had more than 4,500 operating satellites in orbit and China had almost 600, Russia had fewer than 200, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. And Borisov says his country can make only about 15 a year. “Europe, India, all the leading countries are actively increasing their production capacities,” he told the Moscow daily Vedomosti in December. “But we overslept.”
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There’s almost no private space activity in Russia. A pair of Russian companies, SR Space and T1 IT Holding, intend to launch a suborbital rocket by yearend, though they won’t put a spacecraft into orbit before 2025. But Oleg Mansurov, founder of SR Space, is betting that Russia’s increasing isolation will create opportunities for companies like his. Before the invasion almost all satellite data for civilian use in Russia came from foreign companies, he says. With those suppliers shutting down their service, Russia will need its own satellite operators. “We are like a litmus test of what is happening now with private space in Russia,” he says.
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Putin and Borisov have spent years courting India, which has long been a major customer for Russian-made arms. In 2020 the Indian space agency dispatched four people to train in Russia, part of an agreement for cooperation on India’s fledgling human spaceflight program. But when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington in June, India signed the Artemis Accords, a US-backed space partnership supported by 27 countries, though not Russia or China. India will now work closely with NASA to send an Indian astronaut to the ISS next year. “The perception in India is that Russia is a technology power that’s on the wane,” says Konark Bhandari, a fellow at Carnegie India, an affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Inte ens Indien vill längre samarbeta med Ryssland - landet har knappt
några vapen att erbjuda. Putin förnekar verkligheten och fängslar WSJ-journalisten.
Andrei Kartapolov and Andrei Gurulev, United Russia State Duma deputies;
