So both information streams indicate that there are serious financial problems. The first publications mentioned lots of money to be invested in MIR, but sponsors, generous donors and users did not show up as much as expected and instead of hundreds of millions only sums of approximately dozens of millions came in. MIRcorp offered shares and recently promised to have these signed in space for the shareholders. The payments remained limited to the costs for some freighters and 1 manned expedition. Proudly MIRcorp published about these payments, but to keep MIR operational much more is needed and this is the main problem.
Staffs has to be paid.
Workers of all organisations, supporting projects like MIR, for instance the Training Centre for Cosmonauts, TsPK, near Moscow are scandalously underpaid. This very rich citizen of the United States, who already had a career in spaceflight, is still a serious candidate and nowadays he is regularly present in TsPK to get prepared for a flight. He already paid part of the amount he promised. How much is still unclear. A few weeks ago rumoured a sum of 22 million of the total promised 50 million dollars.