[dr_lew]

Acknowledging the starkly different outcomes, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitri O. Rogozin, who oversees Russia’s military industry, suggested in a Twitter post that the national space agency, Roscosmos, was struggling because of aging leadership. “As long as the youngest Roscosmos director is 62, we can only dream of Mars rovers,” Mr. Rogozin said.

As a sixty three year old, I resemble that inclination. And, as a sixty three year old, I would hope that the engineering staff was a lot younger. Are they? Or maybe it's nothing to do with age, but rather with institutional vitality based on freedom of thought and action, which is absolutely necessary for the motivation, and even the ability, to succeed.

[Pontiac]

During the launching, the Briz-M booster activated as scheduled but switched off after only seven seconds instead of the more than 18 minutes

This to me sounds like a safety system shutdown.

The rocket booster’s monitor computer detected an unsafe condition and shutdown the booster after 7 seconds.

This could be something like a valve that failed to fully open in its allotted time of a bad temperature sensor.

And talking about a bad sensor could be they are buying Chinese parts.

[1010RD]

Right. Nothing like age and experience to cause a malfunction.

[bert]

As you get old, at last half of what you know no longer matters. Bert

Likely Russian reality:

The old men could not have possibly kept up and their vehicles while working, are relics.