I've read all the comments. The main theme is a discussion about how a working environment can be set up to avoid such potentially disastrous things to happen -

I've read all the comments. The main theme is a discussion about how a working environment can be set up to avoid such potentially disastrous things to happen - i.e. hiding technical problems and errors instead of doing it properly (report, fix, verify). It's not like it's only happened in Russia. Everybody knows about the Challenger disaster, which came about due to (in that case) management ignoring issues, so it's different, but still similar. Or do you really prefer that things like this shouldn't be discussed or revealed, but be hidden under a carpet instead? (and a lot of people here, including myself, are not American. Wouldn't go there if I were paid for it. So that's not what this is about. At all.)