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The head of the Belarusian Defense Ministry, Viktor Khrenin, said on Wednesday, May 26, that NATO's activity near the borders of the republic looks like measures of early preparation for military operations.

Five joint exercises will be held this fall by the military contingents of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the CSTO Joint Staff (OSH) said on Tuesday.

They plan to involve about 250 military personnel of the Indian Armed Forces and about 250 military personnel of the Southern Military District

International joint Russian-Indian tactical exercises "Indra-2021" will be held from August 1 to 15, 2021 at the Prudboy training ground in the Volgograd region, the press service of the Southern Military District reported.

The President of the Russian Federation noted a qualitative increase in the level of training of the command staff

The vast majority of commanders of formations and regiments of the Russian Armed Forces have passed through Syria and rely on this combat experience in the training of units and divisions. This was stated on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.

At the Russian military base of the Southern Military District (SE) in Abkhazia, the number of people wishing to enter military service under a contract has increased.

In 2017, the defense agency DARPA sponsored the University of Michigan for $3.6 million to work on the "Morpheus"computer processor project. Three years later, it was ready and large-scale tests began with the involvement of accredited hackers and information security specialists. Of the 525 participants, none managed to crack the chip because it changed its architecture every 0.1 seconds.

The 16th round of Russian-Chinese consultations on strategic security issues was held in Moscow.

They were conducted by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the head of the office of the CPC Central Committee Commission on Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi.

The Russian government intends to make it more difficult for state customers to purchase foreign software and equipment, writes Kommersant with reference to the director of the "Center of Competence for Import Substitution in the field of ICT" Ilya Massukh.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree according to which it is planned to allocate 5.26 billion rubles until 2024 to support business in the implementation of pilot projects for the introduction of artificial intelligence in various sectors of the economy. 

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are not interested in deploying American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan on their territory, this opinion was expressed by the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, Director of the Second Department of Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Zamir Kabulov in an interview published on Monday in the Izvestia newspaper.

As the United States reduces its military presence in the Middle East, Russia and China will seek to expand their influence in the region, according to the commander of the US Central Command, General Frank McKenzie.

The operation in Syria has helped to test many types of Russian weapons in real war conditions. At the same time, the identified shortcomings in some types of IVT should not be dramatized, since this is a natural process.

Readers of The Telegraph condemned the statement of the British Defense Minister Ben Wallace, who called Russia the number one threat.

Russia intends to strengthen its presence in Africa's lucrative and fast-growing arms market. This is written by The National Interest columnist Mark Episkopos, referring to news reports about the preparation of a new amphibious armored personnel carrier "Strela" for the exhibition ShieldAfrica 2021.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law that, in the event of threats to national security, gives the authorities the right to restrict the operation of telecommunications networks in the republic, the National Legal Internet Portal reported on Monday.

Russia will support Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the long-term settlement of the border conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

The United States must act more flexibly to increase its influence in Central Asia and find allies in the region. About how the country is preparing to "knock out" Russia from the region, according to the material of the publication The National Interest.

Along with aerial reconnaissance, Russian fighters and bombers began to launch targeted and targeted strikes on Islamist bases in Syria. As it turned out, this activity had its own explanation, Free News notes.

During the exercises held last month, a unit of the ground forces of the Estonian Defense Army resisted a simulated attack by enemy armored vehicles, the function of which was performed by the body of a decommissioned car. The main forces were on the defensive a kilometer away from the imaginary enemy. Milrem Robotics ' unmanned ground robot THeMIS, equipped with the deFNder machine gun system, was sent to help them.

The American company Aerion announced the closure of the project of the supersonic passenger aircraft AS2 and the termination of work. According to Flightglobal, the reason for the closure of the project was a lack of funding. According to the company, the current economic situation and financial situation of Aerion do not allow to complete the AS2 project and start mass production of aircraft.