Russia to scale back space programme

[Still Waters]

Russia is revising the scale of its space programme, the national space agency has said, after a newspaper reported that the government may be forced into billions of dollars of cuts to its ambitious Moon exploration plans.

It did not give details. But the Roscosmos statement and a report in Izvestia newspaper suggested Russia's prestigious space programme may have fallen victim to government cutbacks brought on by hard times which has seen the economy shrink more than 4%.

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