The state news agency RIA Novosti said it has obtained the draft of the new national program. Citing Gennady Rakunov, the ex-director of the Russian Institute of Space Technologies, RIA Novosti reported that the move was a reaction to attempts by businessmen in the U.S. and other countries to sell lots on the Moon. Such claims “must be answered from the legal point of view,” Rakunov said...
https://www.polygraph.info/a/moon-te.../29766487.html
Not faulting the Russians for thinking this way.
We all know commercialization of space, unregulated, will not go well for anyone but the richest.
But I never thought we would be actually talking about such things in my lifetime.
My thinking was we were going to fight over the deep sea and Antarctica first .