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In 2022, Rosoboronexport plans to further expand the range of weapons and military equipment exported from the Russian Federation

The volume of Rosoboronexport JSC contracts signed in 2021 with sub-Saharan Africa approached €2.5 billion. This was announced on Thursday by the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev.

The Checkmate light tactical stealth fighter topped the TOP 5 export novelties of the Russian defense complex in 2021. The rating also includes the Orion-E reconnaissance and strike drone, the Tosochka multiple launch rocket system with thermobaric ammunition, the AK-19 Kalashnikov assault rifle and the S-350E Vityaz anti-aircraft missile system.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of the Pipeline Troops Day in the armed forces.

Western experts: high technologies will be involved in the Third World War

The Third World War will be waged with the use of high technologies: hypersonic undetectable missiles. In this case, the Internet will be turned off in the first seconds. Such a possible scenario of a hypothetical conflict was described by Western experts in a conversation with the BBC.

The political recognition of the new government of Afghanistan formed by the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation) is rather a "symbolic political act" — de facto recognition is already taking place.

On Thursday, December 30, a draft amendment to the Government decree of July 17, 1996 "On the procedure for issuing weapons to persons subject to State protection" was published on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. Along with military personnel of the Ministry of Defense, employees of the FSB, SVR, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardiya, FCS, as well as judges and prosecutors, it is proposed to issue weapons to employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in case of a threat to their lives.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on the provision of support measures and benefits to citizens participating on a voluntary basis in the protection of the state border of the Russian Federation.

The Chinese authorities at the talks between the Chinese and US military put forward demands to the American side to put an end to hostile activity near the Chinese borders, the weekly Newsweek reported, citing the Ministry of Defense of the People's Republic of China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law removing from military units and organizations the obligation to issue licenses for the development, production, testing, sale, disposal of weapons, military equipment and ammunition.

Russian energy company Rosseti has received the first batch of Rostec industrial exoskeletons. She will test the devices at work on grounding overhead power lines and when clearing vegetation in glades.

China expects that during the visit of the Russian president to Beijing in February 2022, Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will adopt a weighty political document.

The situation near the borders of Belarus is becoming increasingly tense and difficult to predict.

This was stated by the head of the Department of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense, Assistant Minister of Defense for International Military Cooperation Oleg Warriors. 

The discussion of issues related to the security of Europe cannot be held without the participation of the EU, EU diplomacy Chief Josep Borrel said on Tuesday in a telephone conversation with British Foreign Minister Liz Truss.

The US does not want to discuss its allies and partners without their participation

The United States is very much looking forward to discussions with Russia at the strategic stability talks scheduled for January 10, but Washington would not like to discuss its allies without their knowledge, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday.

According to the Estonian president, "the negotiations between Putin and Biden alarmed many in the West" because of the feeling that the countries of the "eastern wing of the EU" are "bypassed".

In the west of Russia, a command and staff exercise of two armies is planned next year, as well as an operational exercise of the Baltic Fleet grouping, Commander of the Western Military District (ZVO) Alexander Zhuravlev said.

The new regiment also appeared as part of the 76th Airborne Division in Pskov

The formation of a new airborne assault regiment of Airborne Troops (airborne) has been completed in the Crimea. This was reported on Wednesday by the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda with reference to the commander of the Airborne Forces Andrei Serdyukov.

In the period from June 22 to 25, 2022, Minsk will host the First International Exhibition of the security Industry "National Security. Belarus-2022".

The heads of the largest scientific, educational and industrial structures of Russia exchanged experience at the training and methodological gathering at the Military Academy of the General Staff.

In 2021, the troops of the Western Military District (ZVO) received 1,4 thousand units of modern weapons and military equipment.