posted 01-21-2015 10:13 AM               

On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin supported Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's proposal to merge Roscomos and the United Rocket and Space Corporation into a single state-run company. The current Director-General of the United Rocket and Space Corporation, Igor Komarov, will take the position of its chief.

"I think that's a correct proposal considering the fat this is more than just a separate enterprise and, in addition, not more than just a separate branch of industry," Putin said at a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. "The rocket and space industry integrates a huge number of aspects of science and manufacturing."

...the United Rocket and Space Corporation, which is fully owned by the government, was set up by a presidential decree December 2, 2013, and registered March 5, 2014. Its sphere of competences embraced research, development, maintenance, and recycling of military hardware, engine missiles and their components, as well as design, construction, and launching of space probes, manned and unmanned spacecraft, orbital and interplanetary stations.

posted 12-28-2015 08:27 AM               

Putin instructed the Russian government to ensure the continuity of powers and functions to be handed over from the abolished federal space agency to the Roscosmos corporation, see to it the required liquidation procedures are accomplished within the officially established deadlines and establish guarantees and compensations the dismissed employees are entitled to in accordance with the applicable legislation.

The Cabinet of Ministers is to resolve other financial, material, technical and other issues in connection with the implementation of this decree.

The presidential decree will take effect on January 1, 2016.