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Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia
schwit1 writes Vitaly Lopota, the president of Russia's largest space company Energia, was suspended Friday by the company's board of directors. From the article: "The move appears to be part of an effort by Russia's government to obtain majority control over Energia, of which it owns a 38-percent share. The directors elected Igor Komarov as its new chairman of the board. Komarov is chief of the Russian United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC), the government-owned company tasked with consolidating Russia's sprawling space sector." The government is also conducting a criminal investigation of Lopota, which might be justified but appears to be a power play designed to both eliminate him from the game as well as make sure everyone else tows the line so that URSC can take complete control.
By the way, theft by government for war is also just theft and there is nothing "in public interest" about it. If the public is so interested in using a factory to produce tanks rather than automobiles, the public then shouldn't use mafia tactics to steal the factory and call it 'nationalization', but it should make it worthwhile for the factory owner to produce tanks rather than cars. Everything else is theft. You want your war and your tanks? You didn't build that factory to take it, but you may provide the owner of the factory with a contract big enough to have him build your tanks, but then you actually have to pay for war, rather than steal for it from the market. Maybe people would be less inclined to start wars if they actually had to pay for them.
You can't handle the truth.
Anybody with at least some brains, yes
- stares in disbelief at monitor -
Crimea was not a "war", there was no shooting, it was a country waiting to be annexed. As for Eastern Ukraine? Don't believe everything you hear on CNN.