State regulation and financing news

The State Duma considered in the first reading a bill concerning the assignment of military ranks to flight personnel. We are talking about the correction of Article 47 of the Federal Law "On Military Duty and Military Service". The head of the Duma Defense Committee, Andrey Kartapolov, spoke about the essence of these changes.

As part of a visit to Nexter's enterprise in Roan on February 19, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced four contracts for the supply of equipment and weapons to the country's armed Forces with a total value of more than 1.8 billion. euro.

Military training of reservists in Russia is conducted annually. 2022 will not be an exception. By presidential decree, some reserve officers and soldiers will be temporarily summoned to the Armed Forces, state security agencies and the Federal Security Service.

Deputies of the Senate (upper house) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at a plenary session on February 17 approved a bill on ratification of the agreement between the republic and Russia on military cooperation, RIA Novosti reports.

Inflation "eats up" the increase in defense budgets of recent years. On February 16, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) released the Military Balance 2022 report, which calculated the military expenditures of 171 countries.

24 colonels received the rank of Major General, and two captains of the 1st rank received rear admirals

Russian President Vladimir Putin by decree awarded the general ranks to 26 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, according to a document published on the official portal of legal information.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia has published a "White Paper— - a summary analysis of the results of the study of the development of high technologies in Russia and the rest of the world.

The Greek parliament voted for the bill "On strengthening the country's defense capability", which approves the acquisition from France of six Rafale fighters, three Belharra-class frigates, as well as torpedoes for submarines.

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia noted the superiority of a number of foreign missiles over Russian

The telecommunications and geoinformation space systems available in Russia do not fully meet the challenges facing the country's economy, according to the High-Tech White Paper posted on the website of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia (MAYOR).

According to Bloomberg, the EC intends to spend €2.4 billion from its budget for these purposes

The European Union plans to spend €6 billion ($6.8 billion) to create a constellation of communications satellites in low Earth orbit to ensure secure communications for member countries. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton.

Bloomberg: The European Union will spend 6 billion euros on an analogue of the British OneWeb system

The European Union will spend 6 billion euros on an analogue of the British OneWeb system, Bloomberg reports, referring to the European Commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton.

According to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Rostechnadzor and its head Alexander Trembitsky should use modern technologies to ensure safety at work and conduct risk analysis.

Acting Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan expressed the opinion that the work of rescuers should not be commercialized. Such a statement was made at the annual expanded board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Acting head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Chupriyan said that the agency has adopted a program for technical re-equipment until 2030. The statement was made during an expanded board of the Ministry with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In particular, the agency will purchase new special vehicles for mine clearance and heavy-class robotic complexes for clearing minefields.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ministry of Emergency Situations should improve the effectiveness of response to any emergency situations.

"To do this, it is necessary to increase operational, analytical, human resources. Equip the department with the most modern equipment. To do this systematically, consistently, in full accordance with the planned plans," the President said, speaking via video link at a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Wednesday.

There are no grounds for the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, which, among other things, would entail the regulation of the work of journalists and the functioning of the information space as a whole, said the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.

About 2.5 billion rubles were invested in the project

Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.P.Chkalov (NAZ. Chkalova, a branch of PJSC Sukhoi Company) will modernize production within five years with the construction of a new building for the production of heavy stealth drones S-70 "Hunter", a source in the authorities told TASS.

Over the past three years, it has decreased by almost 15%, Maxim Ovchinnikov, the first deputy director of the state corporation, told Vedomosti in an interview

The volume of the Roscosmos loan portfolio is 92 billion rubles, Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the state corporation, said in an interview with Vedomosti newspaper.

The National Space Center under construction in Moscow is planned to be put into operation in 2024, and the launch complex for launch vehicles "Angara" at the Vostochny cosmodrome will be completed this year, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos.

At the same time, funding for basic research has been increased to an average of 13 billion rubles a year, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation

Financing of projects in the space industry decreased by about 277 billion rubles during the implementation of the Federal Space Program (FCP) for 2016-2025, but last year Roscosmos managed to partially eliminate this sequester, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation.