[FPSPACE] Roskosmos decides to abandon development of Rus-M booster

[Allen Thomson]

> From what I understand, the exact wording is rather "to suspend" as oppose to "to abandon".

What Popovkin is quoted as saying is "Мы посчитали, что новая ракета нам не нужна, мы пока можем летать и на старых. Мы доложили руководству страны об этом. Руководством страны принято решение пока прекратить строительство ракеты-носителя "Русь-М".

This may be stretching my Russian further than prudent and others who have a better understanding should comment, but I think "пока" here means "for the time being" without any definite implication that things will be resumed later.  IOW, work on the rocket is being halted (прекратить) and they may or may not think about resuming it in the future.