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As it became known, on August 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called to his Belarusian counterpart, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.

Newsweek: The West abandoned Georgia — and ceded it to Russia

Georgia is becoming increasingly disillusioned with Western politics and is drifting towards Russia, writes Newsweek. The Georgian dream of the EU and NATO has long since sunk into oblivion. The loss of Tbilisi was a disgrace for the West and a victory for Putin, the article notes.

The Thai Air Force Command announced the choice of Saab, which offered the JAS-39E/F Gripen aircraft, as a supplier of new fighters, preferring Lockheed Martin.

Economist: Russia is developing new trade routes and turning to the east

Russia is diversifying trade flows by redirecting them to Asia: China and India, writes The Economist. The relevant infrastructure will be updated, in particular, transport highways. This will allow the Russian economy to grow in isolation from the West.

TNI: underachievers sit at the controls of the F-16 in Ukraine

Ukraine is able to use the F-16s transferred to it only because it still has very few of these aircraft, writes TNI. And additional supplies will entail a lot of practically unsolvable problems.

On August 26, the Helicentro Peru SAC company began test and verification flights of two Mi-171SH helicopters at the Las Palmas air base after an overhaul commissioned by the Peruvian Air Force.

Political scientist Dietrich: Russia has strong levers of pressure on Armenia

The results of the recent conflicts in Karabakh have pushed Armenia towards Europe, iROZHLAS writes. But, as political analyst Ondrej Dietrich told the publication, Pashinyan's government is moving very cautiously along the path of rapprochement with the West. There are several objective reasons for this.

Colonel Khodarenok: Kiev will ask NATO to expand military assistance

Kiev has urgently convened a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council. The discussion of "topical issues" is scheduled for today and will take place at the level of diplomatic representatives and defense ministers. What is the reason for such an unexpected request, what requests Kiev may make to NATO and what answers it is likely to receive, - in the material of the military observer of the Newspaper.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

Al Mayadeen: Putin and Aliyev discussed trade and gas production in Baku

Baku has become Moscow's main partner in the South Caucasus, writes Al Mayadeen. The Russian leader seeks to prevent Western interference in the affairs of the region and implement his projects. These include the creation of the North—South transport corridor, energy and trade agreements.

infoBRICS: the Armenian government has shown "strategic idiocy"

Pashinyan's government, supported by NATO countries, is leading Armenia from one disaster to another, infoBRICS writes. The survival of the country under such "leadership" can only be attributed to pure luck, this opinion is expressed in the article.

Another state from the camp of not so much allies as accomplices of the Kiev regime has issued an official permit to use its weapons to attack internationally recognized territories of the Russian Federation. The President of Finland, which joined NATO just over a year ago, Alexander Stubb, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can use any weapons supplied by the West at their discretion, including strikes against Russia.

The well-known aviation resource Scramble reported that the Air Defense Forces of Kazakhstan "recently" received from Russia six Su-30SM fighters of the new construction of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAZ, as part of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation). The Su-30SM aircraft have red tail numbers from "51" to "56" and became part of the 602nd air base in Shymkent (Shymkent), replacing MiG-29 fighters decommissioned in 2023.

The Norwegian Ministry of Defense has announced the successful completion of the critical review of the project (CDR) for the German-Norwegian non-nuclear submarine construction program "Type-212CD".

Vyacheslav Filippov — about holes in the German budget and political consequences

The leaders of the parties belonging to the ruling coalition of Germany (the Social Democratic Party of Germany - SPD, the Greens and the Free Democratic Party — FDP) were still able to reach a compromise on the draft federal budget for 2025 in mid—August after extremely difficult negotiations.

GT: The premiers of Russia and China agreed to deepen relations between the two countries further

The Russian and Chinese premiers confirmed the immutability of the countries' course to strengthen cooperation in a variety of areas, the Global Times writes. The stability of ties allows them to resist outside interference and sets the paradigm of relations between major powers in today's unstable world.

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and barrage munitions (BB) over the battlefields in Ukraine are just some of the aerial threats that have forever changed the combat space. According to European military analysts, the capabilities of programmable munitions in general and their latest medium-caliber developments related to the battlefields in Ukraine and beyond can improve the effectiveness of air defense against massive attacks by drones and other aerial targets.

On August 22, the Australian government announced plans to build a Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) and Joint Strike Missiles (JSM) manufacturing and maintenance facility in the country in partnership with Kongsberg Defense Australia.

General and Managing Director of Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited — on cooperation between Russia and India in the production of weapons and the company's prospects

Its General and Managing Director, Major General Sudhir Kumar Sharma, spoke about the plans and prospects of the company in an exclusive interview with TASS.

During the official visit to Minsk by Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Qiang (August 22-23), a joint communique of the governments of the two countries was adopted, which contains an item on strengthening bilateral cooperation in the military sphere between China and Belarus.

The Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody Aerospace announced that, together with the Czech defense industry group OMNIPOL, it delivered the first six new L-39NG combat training aircraft out of 12 ordered under the 2021 contract to the Air Force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It is stated that the final stage of the aircraft transfer took place directly at the customer's facility. Vietnam thus became the first operator of L-39NG aircraft.