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On Thursday, December 2, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented state awards, honorary regimental and ship cups to the best military formations, medical and educational organizations of the Armed Forces.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta publishes Law No. 388-FZ, which increases the age limit for military service and slightly changes the procedure for concluding a new contract with military leaders.

According to this document, the president of the country has the right to decide for how long a senior officer who has reached the maximum age limit should be left in the ranks.

A list of instructions from President Vladimir Putin has been published following a meeting with members of the government held on November 24, 2021, during which, we recall, the president agreed with a proposal on the personal responsibility of heads of state-owned companies for the purchase of domestic software.

In the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, the main priority will be to further increase the level of professional training of military personnel, according to the Ministry of Defense.

The Minister of Defense noted that the preparatory activities for the new academic year, which started in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on December 1, have been fully implemented

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has set a task for the command staff of the Armed Forces to ensure a high rate of combat training in the troops.

Russian servicemen will rest on December 29 and 30, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference call.

The contract amount was 5.37 billion rubles

VNIIEM named after A. G. Iosifyan will manufacture the Meteor-M satellites No. 2-5 and Meteor-M No. 2-6. The corresponding contract with Roscosmos was signed on November 25, according to the state procurement website.

On November 24, a meeting of the board of the Russian Ministry of Defense was held

The Board considered the issues of combat readiness of the Armed Forces, military education, the moral and psychological state of Russian servicemen, and a number of others. In particular, it was noted that the growing activity of NATO near the Russian borders requires maintaining the combat readiness of nuclear forces, increasing the potential of non-nuclear deterrence forces, including equipping troops with precision weapons and effective means of destruction.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Monday blocked the rapid adoption of the defense budget for the next fiscal year. According to American media, 45 senators supported the termination of the debate on the defense budget, while 51 opposed it.

On November 26, the Japanese government approved additional allocations for defense spending in 2022 in the amount of 774 billion rubles. yen ($6.75 billion).

In the seven years since the conflict in the Donbas, the Ukrainian army has failed to make a leap in technical equipment, but its morale has grown due to propaganda and cleaning of the ranks, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences (Russia), told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

The Russian-made Typhoon-AIRBORNE amphibious armored vehicle has received an export permit, Bulat Zaynutdinov, head of the Foreign economic activity service of the Remdiesel developer company, told RIA Novosti.

A government commission has considered an initiative allowing test pilots to be awarded a rank one star higher than their position. Thus, pilots-lieutenant colonels with special merits will be able to become colonels. The current rules allow you to give "extra" stars to officers only up to and including the rank of major.

At the moment, more than 50 aircraft engines have been repaired and delivered to military units, said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin

New training aircraft are planned to be delivered to the troops by the end of 2021. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke at the VII scientific and practical conference "The system of interdepartmental information interaction in solving problems in the field of defense of the Russian Federation".

According to him, no task of state importance - be it the defense of the country or the fight against coronavirus - can be solved without consolidated efforts, reliable, uninterrupted functioning of such a system. As the minister noted, it is "constantly improving and adapting to changes in the global geopolitical picture. This was clearly demonstrated by the coordinated work in the conditions of continuing restrictions on the coronavirus pandemic."

Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper sued the Pentagon over a ban on the publication of part of his memoirs, which deals with his work in the administration of President Donald Trump. This was reported by the New York Times on November 28.

The Russian Defense Ministry has allocated 4.5 billion rubles for the construction of the Irkutsk Suvorov School.

The Military Department has signed a contract with a Military construction company, which is currently carrying out preparatory work to strengthen the foundation of the base of the building of the facility. The old building was decided to be preserved, and it will be unchanged.

In 2022, promising VVST models, including those with hypersonic weapons, will be put on combat duty. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the Deputy Commander-in-chief of the VKS, Lieutenant General Andrey Yudin.

Beijing Skyrizon, a Chinese investor of the Ukrainian company Motor Sich, is seeking compensation for losses from Kiev through a court in The Hague, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the company's statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing to increase the age limit for military service for marshals, army generals and navy admirals by the decision of the President of the Russian Federation, the document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.