Cooperation Between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus in the Space Industry: Experience, Problems and Prospects
Relevance. The space industry has always been strategically important from the point of view of the development of the national economic and information and communication field of the country, but has become even more relevant in the context of the rupture of relations with the Russian Federation of Western countries and the United States in the space industry and the curtailment of a number of significant international projects with Russian participation. The purpose is to consider the main stages of cooperation between Russia and the Republic of Belarus in the field of creating space products. Objectives: to characterize the nature of the work of Russian and Belarusian enterprises in the field of production of space products; to consider the stages of cooperation in the space sphere of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus; identify joint promising projects in the space industry. Methodology. The solution of the tasks set took place through the use of general scientific methods within the framework of historical,comparative and logical analysis, as well as through the analysis of dynamics in cooperation between the allied states on the basis of the international legal framework. Results. It is proved that the implementation of the sanctions policy on the part of the West against the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus not so much forced to reconsider the nature of relations between the allied states, but also to create a new format for promising cooperation in the field of space projects and space products. Conclusions. Russia's position in the space industry is characterized by instability due to an underestimation of the impact of Western sanctions. Russia, having passed the path of stagnation in the space industry at the initial stage of the sanctions policy, found a way out in cooperation with Belarus on the implementation of space projects, focusing on national interests, and not on international projects of the ISS.