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<Bass can't pay the Russians what they ask for.
It looks like the sponsors will do all they can to bargain and lower the costs.
What they might overlook is that the Russians were faced with the same problem for the Juno flight (Helen Sharman's flight that never got sponsored by British banks, but was by a Russian bank). That was 11 years ago.
Who's going to bow first?
Raoul