Structure and personnel news

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, during an inspection of the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, introduced a new tradition there - he presented a special helmet to a pilot who had flown more than 300 sorties, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Labor has expanded the list of professions for alternative civil service for 2022: this year there will be 127 instead of 124. The draft order of the department on this is undergoing public discussion.

At the same time, funding for basic research has been increased to an average of 13 billion rubles a year, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation

Financing of projects in the space industry decreased by about 277 billion rubles during the implementation of the Federal Space Program (FCP) for 2016-2025, but last year Roscosmos managed to partially eliminate this sequester, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, first deputy director of the state corporation.

According to First Deputy CEO Maxim Ovchinnikov, the state corporation, together with federal executive authorities, is doing everything possible to make up for this

The construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome is accompanied by a shortage of labor resources, as well as some building materials, for example, crushed stone. Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the state corporation, told about this in an interview with the Vedomosti newspaper published on Tuesday.

This is due to the introduction of new technologies and getting rid of non-core assets, the first deputy director of the corporation Maxim Ovchinnikov said in an interview with Vedomosti

Optimization of the number of the space industry of the Russian Federation for 2019-2021 amounted to 8.8%. This was announced by the first Deputy Director General of Roscosmos Maxim Ovchinnikov in an interview published on Tuesday with the Vedomosti newspaper.

More than 80% of the cuts were made by overhead personnel and a non-industrial group, said Maxim Ovchinnikov, Deputy director of the State Corporation for Economics and Finance

The reduction in the number of employees of the Russian rocket and space industry almost does not affect employees involved in real production. This was reported to journalists by Maxim Ovchinnikov, First Deputy Director General of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Economics and Finance.

The organizer of the International Aviation and Space Salons, the Aviasalon company (part of the Rostec State Corporation), has turned 30 years old, the press service of the state corporation reported.

Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) are preparing proposals to Roscosmos to organize a program for sending professional scientists to the International Space Station, RAS President Alexander Sergeev said in Yekaterinburg on Friday.

The good news concerning military pensioners and their families came from the State Duma on Friday. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrey Kartapolov said that monthly payments to retirees this year will definitely be increased.

Russia will continue to assist Kazakhstan in the training of military specialists. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following talks with his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

91 percent of Russians who served in the army on conscription believe that this service did not interfere with their career, and only 9 percent are sure of the opposite, according to the survey of the SuperJob service.

The interaction of the army command and conscription bodies with the Cossacks in the preparation of young people for military service and the formation of the mobilization reserve of the country is now regulated by a special agreement.

Leonid Kalashnikov, head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, said that the Duma will discuss the possibility of assigning the status of a combatant to military personnel who participated in CSTO missions.

Izvestia: in Russia, the training of the Admiral Nakhimov TARKR crew will begin before the end of the year

In Russia, they will begin to form a crew for the Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear missile cruiser (TARKR) of Project 1144.2M "Orlan". According to the training plan, the training of the ship's personnel will begin before the end of the year. This is reported by Izvestia with reference to sources in the military department.

Admiralty Shipyards (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) celebrated the half-century anniversary of the creation of the Leningrad Admiralty Association (LAO).

The General Staff of the Russian Federation and the All-Russian Cossack Society signed an agreement on cooperation in attracting Cossacks to the mobilization reserve of the country, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the VSKO.

The Ministry of Defense noted that the complexity and importance of the tasks solved by the service has increased significantly, taking into account the needs of modern weapons and control systems

The Topographic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation celebrates the 210th anniversary of its creation on Tuesday.

Nanosatellites developed by Sputnix will be launched during 2022

HSE students will be involved in the project of creating a group of nanosatellites for monitoring navigation, including in the Arctic along the Northern Sea Route. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Sitronics Group.

The National Security Committee of Kazakhstan has begun work on reformatting its activities, the press service of the ministry reports.

The Norwegian government has decided to appoint the current Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, to the post of head of the Central Bank after he leaves the post of head of the alliance.