reduce U.S. reliance on Russian rocket technology is also playing to commercial interests: SpaceX is using anti-Russian sentiment in an attempt to unseat ULA, asserting its Falcon 9 rocket is the only politically, technically and financially sound option for launching national security missions. Aerojet Rocketdyne, on the other hand, would be the likely beneficiary of any congressionally directed proposal to fund development of a replacement for the RD-180, a scenario now being reviewed under an Air Force-directed study led by retired Maj. Gen. Howard “Mitch” Mitchell, former head of Air Force Space Command operations and currently vice president of program assessments for the Aerospace Corp., and former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. Due in May, the RD-180 Availability Risk Mitigation Study will look at scenarios for ensuring the availabilitythe Soviet Union in 1940 and elections were held with results approaching 99%. But these results were announced in Moscow 12 hours before the polls closed. As Russia increasingly isolates itself from the West scientific and technological cooperation will be affected as will business. How far this goes is up to Putin.

Absolutely. The West, or at least the U.S., has been in sad denial about the intentions and capabilities of Russia, specifically Putin, for too long - basking in the firmly held belief that the Cold War is completely over, as if a spigot were just turned off. Putin's re-writing of history - alongside this repressive law you name - is such strong evidence of communism and a threat to freedom overall it should knock out all Americans