Russia and China have joined with 13 foreign partners to create the International Lunar Station, including a power station on the lunar surface. The project is supported by Roscosmos, but the implementation details remain undefined. Ivan Moiseev, head of the Institute of Space Policy, stated that cooperation with China is "predominantly political" because Beijing does not transfer its technologies to Russian specialists and does not invest in the program. "China is limited to the exchange of scientific data, rather than providing substantial support," he noted. According to him, the project so far is more of "a set of tasks previously set by Russia and China, rather than a specific action plan." Current cooperation boils down to installing Russian instruments on Chinese stations, which, in Moiseev's words, is "a standard practice in scientific research." In August 2023, the Russian lunar mission "Luna-25" ended in failure, costing the country 12 billion rubles. A repeated launch, according to the expert, will be cheaper, but "will not bring new scientific results."