The Russian Defense Ministry has filed a lawsuit against a suspect in the theft of aviation equipment of the "Doomsday plane" - the Il-80 aircraft. The agency demands more than 2.7 million rubles from the man.

The Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) "Energia" (part of "Roscosmos") has patented a method that allows a spacecraft to reach the International Space Station (ISS) in about two hours, the head of the corporation's ballistics department, Rafail Murtazin, told TASS.