State regulation and financing news

Moscow. December 14th. INTERFAX-AVN - The Kronstadt Company announced on Tuesday that it is creating a ground control point for the Hunter heavy drone.

On Tuesday, December 14, consultations were held on the basis of the CSTO Joint Headquarters to review the draft Plan for joint training of management bodies and formations of forces and means for 2023.

A law has been passed according to which marshals and generals will be able to serve after 70 years. However, for this, in each specific case, a separate decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the President of Russia, will be needed. He will also decide for what period the contract with this or that military commander should be extended.

The Kazakh-Russian intergovernmental commission discussed topical areas of cooperation concerning the prospects for joint use and further development of the Baikonur complex, as well as improving the living conditions of the city of Baikonur, the press service of the Government of Kazakhstan reported.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the country's defense budget, which is planned for 2022 in the amount of over 1.1 billion rubles. In the future, it will be increased by another 500 million euros for the purchase of equipment and weapons, including combat aircraft.

Servicemen and employees of law enforcement agencies will be able to receive a QR code on vaccination against coronavirus, if the bill is adopted, a clarifying amendment will be prepared for it, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova said.

The Ministry of Justice of Tajikistan has published generalized data on state budget expenditures on law enforcement agencies.

For the organization of unmanned transportation on the route Moscow - St. Petersburg, which should start in 2024, the Russian Post would like to receive 1,336 billion rubles of state subsidies.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation wants to ban all types of signal weapons in Russia, except pistols. The agency sent a letter with the relevant initiative to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, RIA Novosti reported on December 10.

Otkritie Bank survey: 18% of Russians believe that robot judges will make sentences more honest

Slightly more than a third of Russians (37 percent) reacted positively to the appearance of robot judges, but in most cases citizens would like their sentence to be considered by a person, not a digital algorithm. Such data are provided in the survey of the Otkritie Bank, RIA Novosti reports.

The delivery of new generation T-14 Armata tanks to the Russian army will be phased. After 2023, it is planned to transfer more than 40 cars.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced a large-scale conscription of recruits in the autumn of 2021 in military specialized units.

"In the ongoing autumn conscription, which was launched in October and involves the recruitment into the Armed forces, other troops, military formations more than 127 thousand people, more than 400 inductees 9 December went by collection points of the constituent entities of Russia for the military service in scientific and scientific-production company", - said the Agency.

The US Navy received $98 million to continue research and development work on the creation of a new generation nuclear submarine with the conditional name SSN(X), follows from the report of the Congressional Research Service.

The President noted that the uniqueness of Russia's position is that no one can intercept missiles, "the speeds are such that it is impossible to take them"

The Russian authorities have managed to do a lot in the development of the military-industrial complex and the armed forces on the basis of the restored economy of the country. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview for the film "Russia. The latest history" on the TV channel "Russia-1".

Russia needs to launch about 20 microsatellites into space every year, said Ivan Uteshev, head of the Astronomy Department of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence

About 20 launches of microsatellites need to be carried out annually, and the program for launching such devices requires support on a long-term basis. This opinion was expressed by the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Center for Pedagogical Excellence of Moscow, coach of the Russian national team in Astronomy and Astrophysics Ivan Uteshev at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with participants of the Congress of Young Scientists on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation records the increasing demand in the country for the production of decommissioned weapons and structurally similar products, follows from the letter of the department to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (available to RIA Novosti).

Germany is contributing over €400 million to the NATO joint budget this year for the first time in more than a decade.

This is stated in the response of the German Defense Ministry to the corresponding request of the Bundestag deputy from the Left Party Sevim Dagdelen, which is available to the DPA agency.

Armata will complete state tests in 2022, a new ammunition for the T-14 has been created

The Armata tank has received new shells, state tests of the entire complex will be completed in 2022, First Deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia Andrey Yelchaninov said in an interview with Interfax.

The aggravation of security problems in the world is a key factor that affects the development of the Russian Armed Forces (AF), said the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov.

In equipping the Ground Forces of the Russian Federation, special attention is paid to the supply of modern means of control, intelligence, electronic warfare and fire destruction, said Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, at a briefing for foreign military attaches.