Russia fears the consequences of the collapse of the Ukrainian space enterprise "Yuzhnoye" design Bureau, said on the last working day of the week Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

"Today we are witnessing a complete degradation (Yuzhnoye ). Even already there are some concerns associated with all other products, which are produced by this plant effect of what is happening in Ukraine in General ", - said Rogozin correspondents after the meeting of the Russian-Kazakh intergovernmental Commission.

"South" - the Soviet, then Ukrainian scientific-design Bureau for the development of rocket and space technology, one of the most famous plants in the world. Among the developments - ecologically clean rocket "Zenit" conversion project "Dnipro" and a number of remote sensing satellites of the Earth.

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