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Yuri Baturin: Cosmonautics Day as a Key Unifier for Russia

Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space on 12 April 1961. This day is losing its significance for the Russian people today; we no longer follow developments in space, nor do we know what has happened to former cosmonauts. The RIAC editorial staff thought it appropriate to draw the attention of our readership to this situation, so we posed a few questions to Russian space pilot Yuri Baturin, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Director of the Vavilov Institute of History...