Rogozin limited foreign travel of Roscosmos employees due to the “aggravation of the geopolitical situation” and sanctions • Meduza • RIMA

Rogozin limited foreign travel of Roscosmos employees due to the “aggravation of the geopolitical situation” and sanctions

The head of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, instructed to exclude trips of employees of organizations of the rocket and space industry abroad on business trips and on private matters. This was told to RBC by a source in the space industry.

According to the publication, Rogozin ordered this on February 26 for the safety of workers and to avoid negative consequences during their stay abroad. According to the instruction, the corporation's employees are allowed to travel only to Kazakhstan and Belarus on business matters.

In the document itself, the measure is explained by "the aggravation of the geopolitical situation and the sanctions policy pursued by leading foreign states against Russia and its citizens," RBC reports.

The RBC source also said that Rogozin canceled the holidays of Roscosmos employees. “The mobilization principle of work has been introduced: everyone is on the ground, based on the analysis of the situation, including the essence and consequences of sanctions, decisions are made to change priorities in the work of enterprises and the state corporation as a whole,” he said.

The press service of Roscosmos confirmed the restriction of travel abroad for employees of the corporation: "Yes, such an order exists."

According to the interlocutor, on the draft document, Rogozin added that "this is important from the point of view of being at the workplace of all those responsible for the operational reorganization of production in conditions, in fact, of wartime." “And from an aesthetic point of view, warming your belly on the beach, when officers and soldiers are dying for your country at the front, is more than strange,” RBC’s interlocutor quotes Rogozin.

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After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain imposed sanctions, including those affecting the Russian space industry. The European Space Agency refused to hold a teleconference with Roscosmos.