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Units of the Armed Forces of Laos have arrived in the Primorsky Territory to participate in the joint Russian-Lao exercise "Laros-2021", the Eastern Military District (VVO) announced on Monday.

The fighting will continue until the Taliban and the Afghan government start negotiations

The special representatives of the" extended troika " for Afghanistan (Russia, the United States, Pakistan, China) will discuss the ongoing offensive of the Taliban (members of the Taliban group banned in the Russian Federation - IF) at the upcoming meeting in Doha on August 11, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation, director of the second Asia department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Interfax on Monday.

More than 1 thousand servicemen of the missile forces and artillery of the combined arms association of the Central Military District will take part in the exercises that started at the training ground in the Kemerovo region, the press service of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

It is too early for Belarus and Russia to create a union ministry of defense, since the parties are not ready for this, first they need to adopt the constitution of the Union State, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday.

"Typhoon-K", BTR-82 and Mi-35M were involved in the joint exercises "South-2021" of the military of Uzbekistan and Russia in the area of the border with Afghanistan.

According to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the joint group has worked out a special operation to prevent the possible crossing of the state border by illegal armed groups.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes to create a special structure within the UN on the problems of combating maritime crime in different regions.

CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas notes the growing tension along the entire perimeter of the Organization's responsibility, in particular, around Belarus and on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

In 2021, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will actively participate in the VII International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" in order to form and sustainably operate a network of leading universities included in global rankings that implement breakthrough research and development work that can be successfully implemented at enterprises of the military-industrial complex.

A group of researchers from the Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Columbia University has found a new way to perform complex quantum algorithms on a traditional computer.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Tatyana Shevtsova held a meeting on the innovative system of financing the army in wartime, which will be tested at the Zapad-2021 exercises, during a working trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters.

Deborah Lyons, Special Representative and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, appealed to the President of the Republic Ashraf Ghani to immediately stop the violence in the country.

The decision of Russia and the United States to extend the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (STCW) is a welcome step, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes.

Russian servicemen in Syria conducted joint exercises with flamethrowers from the Syrian-Arab Armed Forces (SAR).

The Defense Minister stressed that the main task assigned to the military-industrial complex is to increase the production of military and dual-use products

The import substitution program will allow to increase the share of Russian products in the domestic market of the defense industry by two and a half times by 2025, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting with the staff of Krasmash on Friday.

Russians are also trained in such organizations, the minister stressed

Propaganda centers, which train Russians, among others, to conduct subversive information work in Russia, have been established in Riga, Tallinn and Warsaw. This was announced on Friday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise.

On August 5, a briefing for foreign military attaches dedicated to the upcoming Army-2021 forum was held at the Patriot Convention and Exhibition Center.

It is necessary to focus on securing people in the army by creating conditions for life, recreation, and raising children, since the number of contract soldiers in the Russian Armed Forces is consistently increasing. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise in Krasnoyarsk on Friday.

In the Volgograd region, at the Prudboy training ground, Indian and Russian special forces staged a competition on the "scout lane". The training with elements of real combat took place within the framework of the joint exercises "Indra-2021".

The bill was submitted to the State Duma for consideration at the autumn session

The Federal law " On the military innovative technopolis "Era" will provide state support to legal entities - residents of Innograd. This was stated on Friday by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, while on a working trip to Anapa.

In Poland, opponents of vaccination against coronavirus infection will be banned from wearing military uniforms. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter on Friday, August 6.