State regulation and financing news

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will deliver nine ships to the Russian Navy in 2021, the head of the USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, said.

The Russian state corporation "Roscosmos" lost a large sum due to fraudulent actions. The funds were stolen more than five years ago, but a criminal case on the fact of theft on a particularly large scale was opened only now, a source told Izvestia on Thursday, June 3.

Russia is considering the possibility of creating a reusable super-heavy rocket that could be used for flights to the moon. Earlier it became known that the appearance of the carrier "Yenisei" will be revised.

[b]According to the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin, one heavy rocket will be delivered in June, a light one - in July, and the rest are planned to be delivered by the end of the year.]

Four Angara launch vehicles will be delivered by the end of the year, but not all are planned to be launched by January. This was announced on Thursday in an interview with TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2021), the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

JSC "Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" (PSZ, part of the USC) is seeking to obtain new contracts under the State Defense Order, General Director of the enterprise Ilya Samarin told Interfax.

Moscow has seen the statement of Sudan's intention to reconsider the decision on the military base, the discussion is going on through diplomatic channels, the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.

Negotiations on changing the conditions for the deployment of a Russian naval base in Sudan should be preceded by a financial assessment of the issue, Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Alexey Chepa said on Wednesday.

Nikolai Korchunov, the Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-large and a senior official of the Arctic Council, explained in an interview with RIA Novosti why Russia is restoring military infrastructure in the Arctic.

The State Duma at a meeting on Tuesday adopted in the second and third, final reading a law introducing the concept of official secrets in the field of defense.

At a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, there was no talk of "surrendering" sovereignty, issues of rapprochement between the countries were resolved. This was stated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, June 1.

More than 500 units of military equipment have been transferred to the Space and Air Defense forces over the past five years, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on a conference call at the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday.

More than 4,500 exercises and trainings will be held during the summer training period in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday, June 1, by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The share of foreign electronics in public procurement in 2020 decreased from 51% to 43%, and should decrease even more due to the government decree on the minimum share of purchases of goods of Russian origin, which entered into force on January 1, 2021, a member of the board of the Military-Industrial Commission (MIC) said at the plenary session "Electronic industry as a technological basis for sovereign and innovative development" of the first International Industrial Forum "Intelligence of Machines and Mechanisms", held in Sevastopol.

The Chairman of Promsvyazbank, Pyotr Fradkov, spoke to the scientific and pedagogical staff and students of the final course of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the financing of the military-industrial complex.

The Office will have its own budget

The Ministry of Defense will form an office for working with artificial intelligence with its own budget by December 2021. This was announced on Monday by Mikhail Osyko, a member of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The armed forces are involved in solving general civil issues. So, for the uninterrupted water supply of the population of the Crimea, the military laid a temporary water pipeline with a length of 32 kilometers. This was announced on Monday at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation by the head of the department Sergei Shoigu.

The Russian Defense Ministry will form about 20 new formations and military units in the Western Military District in response to the actions of NATO countries. On the air of Sputnik radio, this decision was commented on by a military expert, candidate of Historical Sciences Ivan Konovalov.

In addition to holding the Main Naval Parade, the meeting of the Board of the Russian Defense Ministry considered the implementation of the plan of the Western Military District in the framework of the implementation of the May decrees of the President of the Russian Federation and his instructions given at the meeting in Sochi.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to return half of the costs of Russians when switching to domestic electronic components and software.

The new Russian manned spacecraft "Eagle" will be able to fly around the Earth for about a year and around the Moon for up to six months, according to the materials of Roscosmos, posted on the state procurement website.