“Cosmonauts are above the ongoing squabble, no matter what officials decide,’’ he told the newspaper. “It’s politicians and bureaucrats who can’t reach agreement, not us."

Hmm.. if the politicians and bureaucrats wanna talk a fat lot, tell them to go to space? Yeah... but the funding comes from the former so need to meet halfway.

Lovely how some people in remote parts for work assume that the hardship they endure entitles them to dictate terms. They forget that they accepted certain terms, whether by action or omission and now cannot, as an afterthought argue. They can dictate terms to a certain extent, but that's about all. If the cosmonauts talk a fat lot, the politicians might simply cut funding totally. And not sharing amenities would be the least of their problems.

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Don't want no drama,
No, no drama, no, no, no, no drama