Dmitry Gudkov: "Psychology of a temporary worker"

“We won’t have our own Elon Musks. Not because there are no smart people, talented engineers and businessmen. It’s just that they all have power: millions of officials and the government. It was they who wrote a negative review of my bill on private astronautics. We thought for three months, with February, and this is what they came up with (translating from bureaucratic to human).

You, the government writes to me, propose to remove the state monopoly on space. Allow private companies to develop satellites and provide “space” services (for example, geolocation, communications, etc.). We cannot do this. We will hide behind international obligations, but in reality we will simply not allow anyone to develop who can compete with our ineffective ones. Otherwise, why are we needed?"