The security of Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in southern Kazakhstan, is clearly a matter of strategic concern for the Russians under the current conditions of upheaval in that country. Russian news agencies quoted Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, saying yesterday that security had been strengthened around key installations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. “Today it was calm at Baikonur. The branches of Roscosmos’s enterprises, law enforcement agencies, city services and organizations are working as normal. The crisis center set up at Baikonur’s administration is fully controlling the situation in the city. Armed security at the cosmodrome’s key facilities has been boosted,” Rogozin wrote in his Telegram channel.
TASS describes Baikonur simply as “a city in Kazakhstan leased by Russia and which hosts the Russian spaceport.”
