Structure and personnel news

The ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in the Crimean Saks will remain the only complex for training naval aviation pilots, the use of the new complex in Yeysk is not planned. This was reported by a source in the Russian defense industry.

The American ground forces and Marines are going to revise the basic requirements for the training program for drivers of military vehicles. This is reported by the Army Times. The main reason for this decision is the frequent accidents involving military vehicles, including rollovers, sometimes with fatal outcomes for military personnel in cars.

The decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on additional measures to support the families of military personnel and employees of some federal government agencies has been signed and published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

"Merciless Invisibles", "Angels of Death", "Cold-blooded Killers"... what kind of nicknames were not invented by Ukrainian soldiers and Nazis from the Azov regiment (banned in Russia) for snipers of the People's militia of the DPR.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, criticized the statements of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who tirelessly declares that the alliance comprehensively supports Ukraine, but at the same time is not a participant in the conflict. Moreover, the bloc will not directly interfere in the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation in the future, so as not to involve other countries in it.

An audit for an enterprise is like an X–ray for a person - with its help, both the strengths and weaknesses of the company are revealed. To detect them, you need special skills that a modern auditor has. The head of aerospace certification projects - the leading auditor of RT-Techpriemka JSC, Alexander Buzov, told about what kind of auditor he is, the auditor of the XXI century.

Russian scientific organizations and universities have lost access to one of the world's largest databases of scientific articles Web of Science, which is managed by Clarivate. The termination of access was announced by the telegram channel Russian Research, the information about the shutdown was confirmed by the Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexey Khokhlov. In mid-March, Clarivate announced that it was ceasing all commercial activities in Russia in connection with the military actions of Russian troops in Ukraine.

Les Echos: 5 things to know about Christopher Cavoli, the new NATO Commander-in-Chief

The joint NATO forces in Europe have a new commander — General Cavoli, according to the French edition of Les Eco. Interestingly, the news came out under the heading "Ukraine". Who would have thought that one day it would be "under Ukraine" that NATO's top commanders would be chosen.

The need to unite the efforts of leading scientists and organizations in the field of IT technologies became the main task of the thematic session "Artificial Intelligence - a new basis for the security of the critical infrastructure of the state", held as part of the scientific and business program of the Russian High Technology Week.

Wounded participants of the special operation in Ukraine need support

Among Russian businessmen and reserve officers there are those who voluntarily buy bulletproof vests, helmets, food and send it to Donbass.

State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Nikolay Pankov on Saturday handed over documents on obtaining additional professional education to the military personnel participating in the special military operation to protect the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics who completed the training course.

The first group of servicemen participating in a special military operation has been retrained and is ready to continue serving in the Russian Armed Forces, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Saturday.

As the Czech OMNIPOL group announced on April 27, 2022, the largest manufacturer of civil transport aircraft in the Czech Republic, the Aircraft Industries plant (formerly LET Kunovice) returns to Czech ownership after 14 years. On April 21, 2022, the Russian owner and the OMNIPOL Group agreed to sell 100% of Aircraft Industries shares to the Czech company OMPO Holding (a subsidiary of OMNIPOL).

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the title of Hero of Labor to Yuri Barmakov, an outstanding figure of the nuclear weapons complex of the Rosatom State Corporation, a developer of nuclear ammunition, first deputy scientific director of the Dukhov All-Russian Research Institute of Automation (VNIIA, Moscow).

The authorities want to revive the system of distributing students after their graduation to various enterprises of the country. First of all, this will affect IT specialists who studied on a budget - they can be forced to work for the military-industrial complex for five years. This is one of the measures taken by the authorities to combat the personnel shortage in the IT sector.

The share of French Renault in AVTOVAZ may be sold, according to unofficial information, to a Chinese automaker. Twenty years ago, it was impossible to even imagine such a thing. Then the Russian authorities gave the green light to Western concerns, leaving the Chinese car industry out of the Russian market. However, now the situation has changed dramatically.

Can a high-ranking American diplomat do even more (self)be deceived?

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman called the allegations that NATO threatens Russia's security "absurd," writes a South China Morning Post columnist. Her words strike at the very meaning of the alliance's existence, the author of the article emphasizes.

At the specialized exhibition "Innovation Day of the Ministry of Defense of Russia" in the Military Innovation Technopolis "ERA", the guests and participants of the event were presented with an automated training system "Tornado-G" as part of an automated workplace and a virtual reality kit.

For a long time, the US Marine Corps was, and still is, a kind of "calling card" of the American army. After all, for a century, the Marines have been carrying out, as they write in the press of the States, the protection and assertion of US interests around the world. Now the US Marine Corps is on the verge of serious transformations. So, by 2030, there will be fewer infantry units in the KMP, tanks will disappear and the number of aircraft will decrease.

Since the introduction of responsibility for discrediting the army, the courts have received more than 600 materials under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code. Most of these cases are in the Kaliningrad region, St. Petersburg and the Crimea, it follows from the data of the GAS "Justice".