Structure and personnel news

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".

Yaroslavl Radio Plant joined the RKS holding

The new production asset will allow the Russian Space Systems Holding to increase capacity to expand the range of space products. Yaroslavl Radio Plant has become an active participant in the Program of Strategic Transformations of Space Instrumentation Enterprises.

Rostec State Corporation bought the blocking share of the developer of electronics on Baikal processors — the Edelweiss company. It is noteworthy that representatives of the electronic market associate this company with the founder of the supercomputer company "T-platforms" Vsevolod Opanasenko.

The Russian government has signed a decree on the creation of new engineering schools where personnel for high-tech companies will be trained. The federal center is ready to allocate 36.6 billion rubles for 30 advanced IT incubators at universities.

Air Defense Forces Day – Air Defense Forces Day is a memorable day in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and is celebrated annually on the second Sunday of April, according to the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated May 31, 2006 "On the establishment of professional holidays and memorable days in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation". In 2022, this day falls on April 10.

The main Russian processor manufacturer, Zelenograd "Micron" showed a net profit at the end of the year for the first time in the last 12 years. It amounted to 258 million rubles. The previous 11 years brought him losses of more than 19 billion rubles.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confirmed that the reorganization of the structure of internal affairs bodies is being prepared.

It is assumed that the positions of police chiefs, who are simultaneously deputy heads of territorial and interregional departments of the department, will be abolished.

Global Times (China): obituary on the death of NATO

The caustic material of the Global Times, close to the CPC Central Committee, "To the Death of NATO." The North Atlantic Treaty Organization suffers from "brain death", severe split personality and lies, as well as irrepressible perverted ambitions. Patients do not live long with such symptoms. Now NATO is already close to death, but it is still swaggering. As the proverb says: "He will die, but he will not lie down."