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Last November President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to construct a new space center, to be named Vostochny, in the Amur Region, in Russia's Far East.
Russia currently uses two launch sites for space carrier rockets and ballistic missiles tests: the Baikonur space center in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan, which it has leased since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia.
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