Structure and personnel news

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Alexander Litvinenko, who previously headed the National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISI), to the post of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service. This is reported on the president's website.

Both regiments are part of the naval aviation of the Northern Fleet

The ground test training complex (aviation) (NITKA) in Saki will be used for the first time to train deck pilots of two naval aviation regiments of the Northern Fleet at once in 2021. This was reported to TASS on Friday during the International Aviation and Space Salon by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Getting up at six in the morning, building on the parade ground and preparing equipment-this is how the summer training camps for cadets begin. Now more than 450 students and 18 officers of the military training center (VUC)are participating in them UrFU.

In the Volgograd Region, at the Prudboy training ground, the crews of T-90A tanks of the motorized rifle unit of the Southern Military District (SEO) began training on a new method of tactical and firing exercises of shooting.

The program for the creation of enlarged air traffic management centers (ATM) in Russia will be completed next year, said Dmitry Savitsky, Deputy General Director for products for the air navigation system and dual-use products of the Almaz-Antey concern of East Kazakhstan Region.

According to cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky, "there are no problems with brains and hands in Russia," but conditions should be created for startups

Suborbital flights, if there is an investor, are a lifting and, in the future, a scalable business for Russia. There are capacities and engineering forces for this, Russian cosmonaut, scientist, Hero of Russia Sergey Ryazansky said at a press conference at the Ural Information Center TASS on Thursday.

As part of the operational-strategic exercise "Zaslon-2021", a field hospital of the special purpose medical detachment of the National Guard of the Russian Federation has been deployed on the territory of the Bogorodsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Sergey Kud-Sverchkov believes that cosmonautics will gradually step forward, but due to the hostility of the space environment, these steps are more accurate

A niche for astronauts will remain even in the case of active development of space tourism. This opinion was expressed by cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021.

The parties concluded a corresponding agreement at the site of the International Aviation and Space Salon. They also plan to cooperate in the implementation of projects for scientific and educational purposes.

The United States called the main obstacles to the development of weapons in Russia. This was written by experts of the American research corporation RAND in their report.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill allowing to increase the term of service of marshals, army generals and fleet admirals.

The private corporation Success Rockets announced the registration of the company SR Satellites, which will be engaged in the production of spacecraft. The work will be carried out jointly with the Arcturus Center.

More than 25 military echelons, more than 45 flights of military aviation aircraft were involved in providing transportation

More than 134 thousand people were called up and sent for military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other military formations during the spring conscription campaign of 2021. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not know that his article about Ukraine has become mandatory for studying in the army. This was stated at a briefing on July 16 by the press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov.

The management of the "Military-Industrial Company" (MIC) has decided to increase the salary of linear production managers by 15% - heads of workshops, their deputies, heads of sections and masters of JSC "Arzamas Machine-Building Plant", General Director of LLC "MIC" Alexander Krasovitsky told Interfax on Friday.

The international advisory group, which includes the European Union, NATO and the United States, called on Kiev to adopt the reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) without delay. This is reported in the Twitter account of the EU Embassy in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the transformation of the Mytishchi Research Institute of Radio Measuring Devices into the All-Russian Research Institute of Radio Electronics; the functions and powers of the founder of the Research Institute were transferred to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.

The servicemen of the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan, who perform tasks in mountainous and high-altitude areas, were trained at the Ergaki training center in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the Central Military District (CVO) reported on Thursday.

The priority direction will be the assembly of small spacecraft

The private space corporation Success Rockets has registered a subsidiary company SR Satellites LLC in Rostov-on-Don, which will be engaged in the production of satellites. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the company.

Pilots-graduates of higher military aviation schools in 2020 have started mastering the MiG-31BM interceptor fighters of a separate aviation regiment of Troops and forces in the North-East of Russia.