1/6 Something interesting is happening in the Russian cosmonauts team. A few days ago, Moskovskij Komsomolets newspaper, referring to a source, reported that the representatives of the team are asking to transfer them from the subordination of the GCTC. https://www.mk.ru/science/2021/02/08/novyy-skandal-v-kosmicheskoy-otrasli-rogozina-poprosili-smenit-kuratorov.html

2/6. According to the article, they want to be in the direct subordination of Roscosmos, and Dmitry Rogozin already informed President Putin about it. In the letter, the representatives of the cosmonaut team complain about the poor attitude of the management of the GCTC...

3/6 ... low salaries, problems with the employment of cosmonauts after the end of their flight career and many other problems. In respond, Putin instructed Roscosmos to further investigate the problem. Today, many other media and bloggers picked up on the topic.

4/6 Today, Moskovskij Komsomolets published another article, where the famous cosmonaut Gennady Padalka criticized this initiative and called it "a personal initiative of Oleg Kononenko, the commander of the Cosmonaut Team". https://www.mk.ru/science/2021/02/09/kosmonavt-padalka-raskryl-imya-iniciatora-skandalnogo-poslaniya-rogozinu.html

5/6 The press-service of Roscosmos commented on this situation only by saying that the state corporation is discussing various options for the support of the cosmonaut team. https://tass.ru/kosmos/10655477 

6/6 From my (not professional) point of view, the situation in the GCPC has not looked healthy for a long time. Probably, the patience of some members of the team was affected among other things, by the leapfrog with flight assignments in recent years. Let's see where it leads.