http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/14/baikonurdetention.shtml

Metal Scavengers Detained at Russia’s Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan

Created: 14.03.2005 10:36 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:29 MSK

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Security at the main Russian space center Baikonur, located in Kazakhstan, have detained unauthorized intruders, who broke into the facility to collect pieces of non-ferrous alloys, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.

A spokesman for the Russian space agency Roskosmos, Vyacheslav Davidenko, has said that in late February interior ministry operatives found two CIS citizens on the territory of the space center. One of them was an Uzbek national. They were searching for pieces of non-ferrous alloys. They were detained and did not have anything to do with the direct activities of the center, the spokesman stressed.

He underlined that the territory of the space center, and especially the launch pad and the infrastructure involved in rocket launches were closely guarded, and during the entire existence of the space center not a single case of unauthorized entry on the territory of the facility had been registered.

However, the Kazakh migration police have told the agency that two Afghanis and one Pakistani citizen were detained on the territory of the space center on March 4. They infiltrated the facility in order to gather pieces of non-ferrous alloys. According to the source in the migration police, there were also two Kazakh citizens among the detainees who attempted to gather scrap metal on the territory of the Baikonur space center.

Baikonur was the main Soviet cosmodrome and is currently being leased by Russia for the continuation of its heavy rocket launches and manned space program.

Experts of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys said a chemical analysis of pieces of non-ferrous alloys found at Baikonur could assist nations seeking to improve their missile technology.

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