New space station will focus more on Russian territory than ISS.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS

Moscow, 29 August: Russia's high-latitude multipurpose manned station will replace the ISS [International Space Station] after 2015, the deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Vitaliy Davydov, said today. He was delivering a report on "the state of Russia's activities in space and prospects for them" at the 5th International Aerospace Congress.

Referring to the development of the Russian segment of the ISS, Davydov noted that its construction would be completed by 2011 with the launch of a research module. A multipurpose laboratory module …