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The world community is experiencing an acute lack of trust and stability, which leads to an increase in armed conflicts, mass illegal actions, and manifestations of terrorism, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said on Wednesday at the eighth meeting of the CIS security Council secretaries.

UK blamed four terrorists for the death of pilot Filipov in Syria

The investigative Committee of the Russian Federation intends to apply for the arrest of four militants on charges of the death of Russian pilot Roman Filipov in Syria in 2018. Then his plane was shot down, but he ejected. On the ground, he blew himself up because he was surrounded by militants. Filipov was posthumously awarded the Hero's Gold star.

Thousands of fake accounts created to participate in the information war have been identified in social networks. The main purpose of the bots was to discredit Russia in Armenia and Armenians in Russia, and "threads" from them lead to Azerbaijan, Turkey and Britain. This is the first sign of a new political reality, in which the military-political Alliance of Moscow and Yerevan will be tested for strength.

The growth rate of new technology companies in Russia is one of the lowest in the markets of developing countries, according to the BCG report, which was reviewed by Kommersant. According to him, the Russian Federation accounts for about 3% of the total number of such companies (more than 10 thousand) based in emerging markets since 2014.

At least, so says a prominent expert of the Communist party of China — Jin canrong (Jin Canrong). A video of the speech in which he makes such a statement quickly went viral. The news was picked up by prominent news agencies, and on specialized resources it may well claim the status of the topic of the day. But how much truth is there in it?

Memory devices based on switching resistance have significant advantages over the memory elements used today. Employees of the MIPT atomic layer deposition laboratory together with colleagues from Korea studied the effect of surface defects in one of the electrodes on the properties of a resistive memory cell.

The European space Agency has officially approved the design of the new ARIEL space telescope and allowed the process of its creation to begin. It is expected that the telescope will be launched in 2029 and will conduct the first large-scale study of the atmospheres of thousands of exoplanets of various types, according to the Agency's website.

Sergey Stepanov told RBC how a key titanium producer in the world survives a catastrophic drop in the number of orders from aircraft manufacturers, whether VSMPO-AVISMA helps the state and when the situation can be expected to normalize

Units will maintain the ceasefire and resolve humanitarian issues

The final structure of the Interagency center for humanitarian response in Nagorno-Karabakh was approved on November 18, sources of the Russian defense Ministry told Izvestia.

The antagonism of the goals of the belligerents gave rise to an exceptional fierceness of the fighting

On September 27, 2020, fighting began between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, and in fact Armenia, and on the night of November 10, the parties signed a cease-fire Agreement and the entry of Russian peacekeepers into the conflict zone.

the Outcome of combat operations in modern warfare is determined by missiles and drones

The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh seems to have subsided, but the experience of this conflict will be studied by military experts from all countries.

there is a worthy response to NATO's "containment of Crimea" in Syria

Last year's well-known report by the American Rand Corporation "Stretching Russia's forces and putting it out of balance" States, in particular, that deterring the build-up of Russian forces in the Black sea would include the deployment of significant NATO forces equipped with systems to prevent access and deny access to the airspace over the Black sea.

NYT: trump considered the possibility of an attack on a nuclear facility in Iran

Donald trump allegedly planned to strike a nuclear facility in Iran, but he was dissuaded from this step, the media write. According to journalists, the current head of the White house in the last weeks of his tenure will try to create obstacles to the implementation of the election promise of Joe Biden on the nuclear deal with Tehran.

the Collective forces of the CSTO countries will continue to be equipped with modern weapons

The countries of the collective security Treaty Organization (CSTO) intend to conduct joint military exercises, and in the future, peacekeeping operations, Russian security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.

Russian peacekeepers have completely cleared the Lachin corridor and the section of road to Stepanakert in Nagorno-Karabakh, defense Ministry spokesman major General Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing.

Since the beginning of 2020, the number of attacks on the industry has been at a high level. In the third quarter, this industry was attacked by various hacker groups - including RTM and TinyScouts, as well as cryptographic operators - for example, Maze. It is reported by the company Positive Technologies. So, TinyScouts ' goal was to target energy companies.

In early 2017, the Petra Nova project was launched in Texas – the world's first installation to capture carbon dioxide from emissions as part of the "clean coal" concept (that is, the safe collection of CO2 that is generated when coal is burned).

The Brazilian company Embraer has started developing a light hybrid military transport aircraft. According to Flightglobal, in the army, it will have to replace the outdated emb-110 Bandeirante and EMB-120 Brasilia transporters. The transport project received the designation STOUT (Short Take Off Utility Transport, transport aircraft with a shortened takeoff).

The al Amal interplanetary station successfully completed the third and final trajectory correction maneuver on its way to Mars. This means that the device should arrive to the red planet in the estimated time, which is scheduled for the evening of February 9, 2021, according to the mission's Twitter.

Engineers from Australia have developed a biomimetic soft manipulator for robots that can grab objects by wrapping around them like the tentacles of an octopus or the trunk of an elephant. The manipulator is made of fabric and is driven by a hydraulic actuator.