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Vladimir Popovkin from RF Ministry of Defense is the new head of Roscosmos

Russian Aviaton » Friday April 29, 2011 15:39 MSK

Vladimir Popovkin, head of Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

The 53-years old ex-Deputy Minister of Defense, Vladimir Popovkin, has been appointed the head of Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in place of 65-years old Anatoliy Perminov, which has been in charge of this department for seven years, RIA Novosti reports.

As well as Perminov, whose retirement has been declared by Vice-Premier Sergey Ivanov, supervising MIC, in early April, Popovkin has commanded the Space force before.

Rumors regarding Perminov’s retirement have arisen many times in the last few years, at the end of last year this topic has become essential again after the loss of all Glonass-M satellites and following Ivanov’s criticism.

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