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>What about these sanctions?
>1. They are illegal, however, like all earlier imposed sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities.
>2. They are stupid because the "military end users" are arbitrarily classified as companies that are not and are not.
>For example, TSNIIMASH JSC is the leading branch scientific institute, it includes the ISS Mission Control Center, where a group of NASA specialists is permanently located. Should they not know that there is nothing there that could connect this institution with military research?
>Or, for example, the Progress RCC, which also in a strange way was included in this sanctions list. This Samara enterprise makes the legendary Soyuz-2 launch vehicles, with the help of which the Soyuz MS spacecraft has been delivering American astronauts to the ISS for already 10 years.
>Now, it turns out that our American colleagues have "started working" again, and the first thing they did was to spit in the Samara well. Isn't it too early, colleagues, suddenly again your "trampoline" will break and you will have to satisfy your passion for space from our well again?
>3. These sanctions are harmful, because they will create additional obstacles and irritations in such an important cooperation between Russians and Americans in space, in particular, on the ISS.
>Therefore, for the sake of preserving our common cause, I demand from the US Government these sanctions against our ...
>... businesses cancel immediately. Let's assume that this is a "misunderstanding".
>Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in Space,
>Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation,
>General Director of the State Corporation
>@roscosmos
>D.O. Rogozin
He's absolutely seething
