[Ivan the Terrible]

Russia's Far East is optimal site for new space center - Putin
MOSCOW, February 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Amur Region, in Russia's Far East, is the most favorable location for the construction of a new space center, the Russian president said on Thursday.

Last November President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to construct a new space center, to be named Vostochny, in the Amur Region.

Putin told his last annual news conference as Russian president that, "I do not consider the plans for the construction of the space center are fantastic. We are developing Plesetsk, we will remain at the Baikonur, but we must take into account that some launches could be made from Russian territory, both for civilian and military purposes."

[Emperor Palpatine]

The next time those Russian Bears fly anywhere near one of our ships we should just blow it out of the sky.

I’ve said it many times before and it bears repeating. Ike should have listened to Patton in May of 1945.......

[VeniVidiVici]

The Amur Region, in Russia's Far East, is the most favorable location for the construction of a new space center, the Russian president said on Thursday. construct a new space center, to be named Vostochny

Well now, that is an original name.

[Regulator]

The reason they are building Vostochny is that they don't want to keep paying big rent to the Kazakhs at Baikonur, or be held hostage to the Kazakhs whenever they have a problem like a vehicle failure.

U.S. strike range notwithstanding, that's the real reason.