Cosmodrome on suitcases

What Baikonur lives and why he threatens the disappearance. Podcast "Medusa"

Baikonur is not only a cosmodrome, but also a city built in the Kazakh steppe, where more than seventy thousand people now live, most of which are not related to space. Like the territory of the entire Baikonur complex, the city is leased by Russia: there are two police, two registry offices, two vessels - and their native brothers living in the same apartment may turn out to be citizens of different states. The lease expires in 2050, and what will be next with the complex is unknown: Russia gradually transfer its space launches to the cosmodrome within the country. "Medusa" represents an audio version of the report of Katerina Kuznetsova and Julia Paskevich on how a city of federal significance lives 800 kilometers from the Russian border. You can download the podcast here

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