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The composition of the country's fundamentally new anti-missile screen, which is being worked on in Russia, will include not only radars that report the beginning of an attack.

The presence of the Russian military in Transnistria is illegal, therefore all the armed forces of the Russian Federation must be withdrawn from the region.

On October 29, 2021, the fourth annual Ogarkov Readings Conference was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST). Partners of the event are Rostec Group, JSC United Engine Corporation, JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation and PJSC Promsvyazbank.

The Chinese are learning to sink American ships. On November 7, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that models of an American aircraft carrier and destroyers appeared in the Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region).

US CIA Director Robert Burns, during his visit to Moscow, confirmed the need to comply with the Minsk agreements, including granting a special status to Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Exercises with the CSTO Peacekeeping Forces have been launched in Tatarstan today. The opening ceremony was held at the training ground of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.

The military contingents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, military police units, operational groups of the Joint Staff and the CSTO Secretariat, formations of internal affairs bodies, national guards, as well as authorized bodies in the field of prevention and elimination of consequences of emergency situations take part in the exercise under the overall leadership of the commander of the Central Military District, Colonel General Alexander Lapin. A total of 1800 people and 300 pieces of equipment are involved.

Calculations of the S-300 of the Russian military base in Tajikistan repelled a simulated missile strike during the exercise, the Central Military District (CVO) reports.

Russia and Belarus signed a protocol on extending the operation of the military communications center of the missile attack warning system (SPRN) in Baranovichi for 25 years, the corresponding document was posted on the legal information portal on Monday.

The British Navy risks being left without relatively cheap anti-ship missiles. November 7, portal ukdefencejournal.org.uk He reported that the British Navy had abandoned the previously announced plan to purchase "temporary" missiles.

The Israeli Air Force launched the Sky Dew early warning balloon — one of the largest in the world. According to The Drive, it will notify about threats flying at low altitude. For example, about cruise missiles or armed drones.

The Montreux Convention on the Black Sea is not subject to revision, the strengthening of the US and NATO military presence in the Black Sea region is unacceptable, Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, told RIA Novosti.

In August, China tested a hypersonic missile that circled the globe in a low orbit before taking aim at a pre-determined object. They say that the rocket missed the target by only 38 kilometers. 

On October 29, 2021, the fourth annual Ogarkov Readings Conference was held in Moscow, organized by the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (TSAST). Partners of the event are Rostec Group of Companies, JSC United Engine Corporation, JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation and PJSC Promsvyazbank. We present to your attention a report by the American military historian David Glantz on the topic "The Soviet origins of Operation Desert Storm."

The United States is concerned about the data on the difficult humanitarian situation in North Korea and is ready to participate in solving this problem, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday.

The United States aims not only to return Iran to the nuclear agreement (JCPOA), but also to then begin discussing other controversial issues with Tehran, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday.

The "Indestructible Brotherhood – 2021" exercise will be held in two stages, and the active phase is scheduled for November 11-12.

"The servicemen will take part in the joint exercise "Indestructible Brotherhood - 2021", which will be held at the training ground of the Kazan Tank Red Banner School," the Ministry of Defense clarified.

The US State Department has approved the possible sale of $650 million worth of missiles to Saudi Arabia. This was announced by the Pentagon, RIA Novosti reports.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have created a reserve of forces and means of the military medical service to provide assistance to patients with coronavirus infection in the regions of the country, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

On Friday, the press service of the Central Military District reported that next year the instructors of the 201st Russian military base will train 1,000 junior specialists for the armed forces of Tajikistan.

The next documentary "Görünməyən qəhrəmanlar - Dəniz pişikləri" ("Invisible Heroes - Naval Special Forces"), shown by the Azerbaijani Public Television ITV, dedicated to the participation of the special operations forces of the Azerbaijani Navy in the Second Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020, contains interesting details of the active involvement of Azerbaijani naval special forces in the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. We thank Mammad Valimamedov for the link and presentation of the translation of fragments of the film.