{"id":82097,"date":"2012-11-12T19:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/top-russian-official-acknowledges-corruption-in-satellite-navigation-project\/"},"modified":"2012-11-12T19:42:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T11:42:03","slug":"top-russian-official-acknowledges-corruption-in-satellite-navigation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/top-russian-official-acknowledges-corruption-in-satellite-navigation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Russian Official Acknowledges Corruption in Satellite Navigation Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Russia, GPS, GLONASS, Satellite Navigation System<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/12\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"213\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/4588983968_6f2f0eb0bc_n.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Sergei Ivanov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia admitted knowledge of corruption in Russia\u201d satellite navigation system.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Veni Markovski\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sergei Ivanov, President Vladimir Putin\u2019s chief of staff, publicly accepted he was aware of the suspected embezzlement of more than $200 million of state funds originally allocated for GLONASS, the system that competes with the GPS navigation system of the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>This is a new strike on the ambitious project already hit by the loss of three satellites due to a failed launch in 2010.  <\/p>\n<p>The scandal also follows a military corruption controversy last week that caused the removal of Anatoly Serdyukov from his post as Defense Minister, which heightens critics\u2019 comments about a strong division inside Putin\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Russia, GPS, GLONASS, Satellite Navigation System Publication Date: 11\/12\/2012 Sergei Ivanov, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia admitted knowledge of corruption in Russia\u201d satellite navigation system. Image credit: Veni Markovski Sergei Ivanov, President Vladimir Putin\u2019s chief of staff, publicly accepted he was aware of the suspected embezzlement of more than $200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}