"In this project,
we are currently conducting research and development. The launch will be in
2020-2025, "- said the head of the Federal Space Agency.
Under the
"Venera-D" will send two to Venus orbiter and a lander. After the
failure of the mission "Phobos-Grunt" in the fall of 2011, this
project, like many others ("Mars-Nat", "Mercury-P",
"Venera-D", "Spectrum-RGM" and "Spectrum-UFM") is
under threat. Even report the closure of projects, but that information was
later refuted.