Russia will most likely not automatically recognize the government of Afghanistan formed by the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), it must demonstrate that it is ready to follow the civilized path of the country's development, First Deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Jabarov told Interfax.

The sites for the construction of new cities in Siberia should be correlated with the resource capabilities of the region and the programs for the development of transport networks.

Divisions of the motorized rifle and tank regiments of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the Southern Military District have begun conducting a bilateral tactical exercise at the Kadamovsky training ground in the Rostov region, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to increase the number of reservists in the army. This was reported on Monday, September 6, by the press service of the defense ministry.

Units manned by reservists have been transferred to the Kaliningrad Region, where the Zapad-2021 exercises will soon take place, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

More than four thousand military motorized rifle and tank regiments of the South of Russia have started exercises in the Rostov region.

Military personnel of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the Central Military District, during the practical stage of the Russian-Kazakh joint tactical exercise, destroyed a band of a conditional enemy with the help of artillery calculations of the self-propelled gun "Nona-SVK" at the Kara-Haak mountain range in the Republic of Tyva. This is reported by the press service of the Central Military District.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

The gunners of the Russian military base in Tajikistan, against the background of the situation in Afghanistan, conducted a live-firing exercise at the Sambuli mountain range (Tajikistan), the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

The signing of an agreement on military cooperation between Russia and Saudi Arabia, which took place in August during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021", indicates the readiness of Riyadh to diversify its relations in the defense sphere and go beyond the long-standing focus on Washington, the American edition of Breaking Defense writes.

The Polish edition of Tygodnik TVP published an article about the Belarusian-Russian strategic exercises "West-2021" and stated the need to speak with Moscow "in the language of force".

This is the first peacekeeping exercise organized by China

International peacekeeping exercises Shared Destiny 2021 ("A common destiny-2021") with the participation of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA), as well as the armed forces of Mongolia, Pakistan and Thailand began on Monday in the Chinese province of Henan. This was reported by the Central Television of China.

Washington continues to seek dialogue or interaction with China on the topic of arms control and is looking for opportunities to do so, despite the fact that it does not see a similar desire in Beijing, US Deputy Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins said on Monday.

Since this academic year, Moscow Aviation University (MAI) has started training students in the areas of aircraft and helicopter construction, as well as missile design, according to the programs of the network model of training, said Dmitry Kozorez, Vice - rector for Academic Affairs of MAI.

A video of the flight of a radio-controlled model of a promising Russian Su-75 Checkmate bomber appeared on the Network.

On September 2, the Spanish Air Force announced on its Twitter page that the transfer of the 11th A-400M military transport aviation aircraft to the 31st Transport Wing took place at the Airbus Defense and Space enterprise in Seville.

Chinese aviation continues to "probe" the Taiwanese air defense. On September 5, the Ministry of Defense of Taiwan reported a massive violation of the Taiwanese air borders by Chinese Air Force aircraft. Chinese aviation flights were recorded in the control zone of Taiwan's air defense systems located on the Pratas Islands

According to the head of Roscosmos, a branch of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at the cosmodrome will appear for the first flight of the Orel spacecraft with a crew-by 2025

New houses in the Tsiolkovsky district, which is located next to the Vostochny cosmodrome, will soon be transferred to the cosmodrome. This was announced on Monday by the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Specialists of the Molniya Research and Production Association are preparing to return the Buran spacecraft to Russia. Representatives of the company that developed the ship visited the Baikonur cosmodrome to inspect the infrastructure and the orbiter itself, according to the official website of the NGO Molniya.