lordjedi said:

Yes because of course the Russian space program hasn't moved in 30 years. Yeah, they're still using the same "safety" mechanisms they used from the 70's. Stop with the sky is falling bs.

I would say like 15 years and I wouldn't be far from the truth. But this is not what I meant to say.

Let me tell you a story - aviation technology is fairly close to space technology, right?

Back when we had a freedom of choice (by this I mean interwar period) our airlines used aircraft made in USA. There was an incident that could have fatal ending: with the fuel lines cut in the air, the fully loaded plane can only fly downwards, you know...
It turned out that at high altitude (= low temperature) some water that got into the fuel lines froze and blocked the pipes, effectively choking the engines.
What was the Lockheed reaction when we reported this? They immediately issued repair kits to all Electra users worldwide to fix the potential danger.

After the World War 2 we were overrun by Soviets and all choices were limited to "made in USSR" ("sdielano v CCCP"). I'm not going to remind you about Chernobyl, but I'll give a more adequate example, to compare with the above:
One of our airliners goes down. The results of our investigation of the Ilyushin Il-62 crash go to the Soviets. Our technicians reported that the problem lies with the engines (crappy material & assembly quality, bad design). Ilyushin's Design Bureau reaction? "You is wrong, be sure* All engines good, everything chorosho. We don't see any problems." We insisted. They denied - and never admitted that the poorly designed & made engines caused the crashes - even after our second Il-62M went down 7 years later... due to the same problem (yes, even the modified variant suffered from the same errors!)... that's 270 dead people in total in those 2 cases, plus 8 more fatal crashes worldwide.

Plane crashes happen from time to time. No technology is totally fail-safe. But to deny a post-crash technical report in order to cover-up their technological errors (and bad design approach, and neglecting safety precautions, and poor manufacturing culture) because "all Soviet stuff must be fine - and no questions"?

The problem is that Russians still retain a lot of their Soviet mentality. Old habits die hard. They may be working for "Lincolns" instead of Lenin now, but it takes more than one generation to change the spirit of a nation.

*) too bad you don't frequent certain forum I do, you'd get this sarcasm