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Alexander Fomin also noted the high level of organization of the event

The holding of competitions of the International Army Games in Algeria will further strengthen the bilateral military cooperation between the two countries.

Military-economic cooperation was discussed in Belgrade at a meeting of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova and Serbian Defense Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

About 300 Russian military personnel and more than 60 pieces of equipment have been transferred to Kyrgyzstan for the CSTO "Rubezh-2021" maneuvers, the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Monday.

This was stated by Ivan Ozhgikhin, Senior Managing Director of RUSNANO Management Company, Chairman of the Management Board of the Medical Equipment Consortium, at the Innomed forum. Currently, up to 30% of the volume of medical products purchased at the expense of the budget is already produced in Russia.

Roscosmos has already shared the first details about the Russian space station ROSS, which is planned to be launched after the completion of the ISS operation. Now new details have become known. 

The American company Astra launched the Rocket 3 light rocket for the third time, but again unsuccessfully: during the launch, one of the five engines of the first stage failed, so the flight began on a horizontal trajectory.

The threat to American forces in Afghanistan from the IG (the terrorist group "Islamic State", banned in the Russian Federation) is real, Washington is ready for new attacks. This was stated by the head of the US central command, General Kenneth Mackenzie.

The phase of the CIS exercises "Caspian-Antiterrorism-2021" has started in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, the press service of the National Security Committee of the republic reported.

Servicemen of the fifth naval construction battalion of the US Navy (NMCB-5) began to build copies of military equipment from wood. The military erected plywood copies of Humvee cars. The models are designed to equip the 17th combat logistics regiment during the exercises, writes the Defense Blog portal.

Against the background of the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will hold maneuvers in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan this autumn with the participation of several thousand military personnel, a CSTO representative said.

Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu called for building an effective defense against anti-Russian propaganda coming from abroad. The military commander made such a statement at the conference " Army and Society. Psychological defense" within the framework of the ongoing international military-technical forum "Army-2021". According to him, at present, "deep work is being carried out against us gradually, step by step."

Armenian Defense Minister Arshak Karapetyan received a delegation headed by First Deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff, Lieutenant General Hassan Kaloev, in Yerevan on Friday, the press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry reports.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky spoke in favor of the presence of the NATO bloc in the Black Sea. "Ukraine consistently supports the presence of NATO in the Black Sea," he said at a briefing in Chisinau after a quadripartite meeting with the presidents of Moldova, Poland and Romania.

A youth personnel reserve will be formed in the Russian military-industrial complex.

This was announced by the deputy chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation Oleg Bochkarev following the results of a round table on the topic "The role of the youth personnel reserve of the defense industry in solving the problems of the development of the defense complex".

The training sessions were held at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region

Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Army General Dmitry Bulgakov checked the logistics support group (MTO) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during special training that took place in preparation for the West-2021 maneuvers, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Friday.

The Pentagon has banned American military bases in Europe from entering into contracts for the purchase of Russian energy resources. The US Department of Defense posted a notification about this in the so-called Federal Register of Official Documents of the US government.

The Turkish authorities have agreed to help with the management of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera TV channel reports, citing a source in the Taliban movement*. Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara had received a request from the new Afghan authorities to manage the capital's air harbor.

Lieutenant General of the US Air Force Thomas Boussier predicted the superiority of China over Russia in the capabilities of nuclear weapons. His words during an online forum on nuclear deterrence are reported by RIA Novosti.

A member of the US House of Representatives, a former US Navy reservist, Jim Banks, said that the Taliban (a terrorist organization banned in Russia) seized American military equipment worth $ 85 billion. His words are quoted by The Independent.

The passage of two US warships through the Taiwan Strait is a provocation, said Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Tan Kefei. This is stated on Saturday, August 28, in a message on the website of the Chinese military department.