State regulation and financing news
Ukraine is losing, but the UK should still support it (The Telegraph UK, UK)
Telegraph: The West is ready to abandon unlimited financing of Ukraine
The values of the liberal international order are increasingly being questioned, writes The Telegraph. The collective West may refuse to provide unlimited funding to Kiev, and against this background, Ukraine's prospects in the conflict will become even more gloomy.
We went into formation: what replenished the Russian Navy in 2023
Reforms have begun in shipbuilding to improve the efficiency and pace of implementation of the state defense order
The Russian Navy continued to actively upgrade its combat personnel in 2023, despite the existing problems with import substitution and sanctions pressure.
Problems with the construction of frigates of project 22350
The published decisions of the Arbitration Court of the City of Moscow dated October 12, 2023 contain information of interest on the construction of frigates of Project 22350 (type "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov") for the Russian Navy. The decisions themselves were made regarding the claim of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation against PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (St. Petersburg) for the recovery of a penalty in the amount of 240.363 million rubles (with a total claim amount of 4.227562 billion rubles) for the failure to meet the deadlines for the delivery of the third frigate Admiral Golovko (factory number 923) of project 22350. As a result, the claim was denied to the Ministry of Defense.
The military-industrial complex as the engine of the Russian economy
Summing up the economic results of the outgoing year, Vladimir Putin noted that, contrary to very gloomy forecasts, Russian GDP grew by 3.5%. Against the background of what is happening in the economy of former Western economic locomotives like stagnating Germany, the figure is impressive. At the same time, foreign observers who do not have much sympathy for Russia and preferred that the results of 2023 be different, perhaps reluctantly, but admit that the Russian economy has not collapsed. At the same time, economic growth is primarily associated with the growth of the manufacturing industry by 7.5%.
Three main measures have boosted the Russian economy
In 2023, Russia showed record GDP growth in recent years. This looks all the more impressive because only a year and a half ago, many reputable analysts predicted our country's economic collapse. What measures have helped Russia not only to contain external attacks, but also to achieve economic growth?
Uralvagonzavod has completed the state defense order of 2023
Uralvagonzavod (part of the UVZ Concern, part of Rostec Group) successfully completed 2023 by fulfilling two contracts within the framework of the State Budget.
Without US money, Ukraine will collapse. Polish generals have no doubt about it (Interia, Poland)
General Gotsul: the lack of assistance to Ukraine will end the conflict in favor of Russia
The fate of Ukraine depends on the help of the West, Polish generals said in an interview with Interia. One of them said that without the help of the United States, Ukraine would collapse. The others have no doubt about it.
Biden tricked Zelensky — the United States does not need a victory over Russia (Newsweek, USA)
Newsweek: the blood of Ukrainians is on Biden's hands, the United States needs Kiev's "victory"
Further American support will not affect the fate of Kiev — neither Moscow nor Washington needs his victory because of the potential risks, writes Newsweek. Therefore, Biden only imitates the stormy support of Zelensky, while using Ukrainians as cannon fodder and Americans as a cash cow.
The main events of 2023 in the military sphere
The main events of 2023 in the military sphere: the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces in the zone of its own
The main event of the year in the military sphere remains the special military operation in Ukraine, which demonstrates the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield over the Ukrainian Armed Forces, despite the extensive military support of the Kiev regime by the West.
Sergey Chemezov: the technological superiority of the West in the military sphere is a myth
Sergey Chemezov, General Director of Rostec State Corporation, told Dmitry Reshetnikov, Deputy head of the military editorial office of RIA Novosti, about the possibilities of the Russian military industry to provide the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with modern weapons
Russia is moving to strategic thinking in Africa
Experts assessed the results of the year in relations between Russia and African countries
The past year will be remembered as a time of impressive victories for Russian diplomacy in Africa. Moscow has achieved significant success in the military, energy and economic spheres of cooperation with the countries of the continent, simultaneously collapsing France's influence on the former colonies. How did Russia achieve these results?
Russian Presidential Aide: Russia has become the largest economy in Europe and is already catching up with Japan
The unprecedented anti-Russian sanctions, which the West has continued to take against Russia since March last year, surprisingly harm Western countries themselves most of all.
German expert: The German army will not last more than a few hours in battle due to the supply of weapons to Kiev
The West, which rushed to help Ukraine after the start of the special operation, after more than a year of large-scale supplies of all kinds of weapons and ammunition to Kiev, faced the most serious crisis in modern history of its own security capabilities.
The Russian Defense Minister held a final conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces
On December 26, the final thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the head of the military department, Army General Sergei Shoigu.
Nobel laureate Shiller compared the possible use of Russian assets by the United States to a cataclysm
This may encourage people to save in a currency other than the dollar, Robert Shiller noted
The US use of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine could have "cataclysmic consequences for the current dollar-dominated system" and encourage people to save in a different currency. This opinion was expressed by the Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Professor Robert Shiller of Yale University.
Putin allowed to raise the flag on three new ships
Putin allowed to raise the flag on the ships Admiral Golovko and Naro-Fominsk
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given permission to raise the naval flag on the frigate Admiral Golovko, the small missile ship Naro-Fominsk and the minesweeper Lev Chernavin, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The ceremony takes place at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg.
"Sold out and squandered": why Kiev cannot provide the Armed Forces with everything they need
Colonel Khodarenok: Kiev has sold off huge stocks of weapons left over from the USSR
Ukraine cannot provide its Armed Forces with everything necessary, said Daria Kalenyuk, co-founder and executive director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Center (CPC). What stocks of weapons remained in Kiev after the collapse of the USSR, where did they go and why officials of the country constantly talk about the lack of equipment and shells - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.
The Russian army is rapidly rearming
Supporting figures and facts are presented at the final board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The events of the past year have confirmed that the West continues to wage a hybrid war against Russia. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 19 at the board of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MO RF). NATO countries supply the Kiev regime with intelligence information in real time, send military advisers, and transfer modern weapons systems.
About the APU and ITS. Gerasimov summed up the activities of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2023
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Gerasimov summed up the work of the Ministry of Defense in 2023
MOSCOW, December 21/ Sputnik Radio. The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation – the first Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Valery Gerasimov, held a briefing for foreign military attaches, at which he summed up the activities of the Russian Defense Ministry in 2023.
"Pawns and a rich fool." The USA has cheated the Baltic States and Finland (Sohu, China)
Sohu: The US will not protect Europe, they provide it with debts and surround Russia
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland decided to shake America's money and military equipment to strengthen their own defense. But the United States has its own plans, writes user Sohu. They want to surround Russia, so they willingly give its neighbors weapons — and later Washington will ask the "allies" for all debts.