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GLONASS source Ria Novisti

 

November 12, 2012. David Pugliese - Defence Watch

 

Russian news agency RIA Novosti is reporting that the chief designer or Russia’s scandal-hit Glonass satellite navigation system, Yury Urlichich, was fired from his job. The agency got that confirmed via  a spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

 

More from their report:

 

The decision was made by the government’s military-industrial commission, which is headed by Rogozin, the spokeswoman said.

 

Russia’s rival to GPS was rocked by fraud allegations earlier this month, with the Interior Ministry accusing unnamed Glonass officers of embezzling 6.5 billion rubles ($200 million) of program’s funds.

 

The crackdown on Glonass was backed on Sunday by head of the Kremlin administration, Sergei Ivanov, an ex-Defense Minister and alleged Rogozin ally who said that the investigation into the Glonass fraud was ongoing since 2010.

 

The Glonass program was in the works since the 1970s, but underwent a radical revamp in 2001. The 24 satellites comprising the system were put into orbit by 2010, though not after several costly malfunctions and launch failures. The program cost 140 billion rubles ($4.4 billion) to implement, and its budget for 2012-2020 stands at a further 326 billion rubles ($10 billion).

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