Structure and personnel news

More than 120 retired American generals questioned the reliability of the results of the US presidential election in 2020, as well as the mental and physical condition of the elected leader Joe Biden. An open letter from the military was published on May 12 on the Flag Officers 4 America portal.

It was created on the basis of the European Agency for the Satellite Navigation System Galileo

The European Union's Space Program Agency (EUSPA) has been operating in Prague since Wednesday. It was created on the basis of the European Satellite Navigation System Agency Galileo, whose head office was located in the Czech capital since 2012 and was transformed into the headquarters of EUSPA. This was reported by Czech Television.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation received 850 thousand doses of the drug "Sputnik V", more than eight hundred thousand people have already been vaccinated in the army. This was announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, speaking at the board of the military department.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday, May 4, signed a decree on the deprivation of more than 80 former servicemen and employees of the country's law enforcement agencies of military and special ranks for discrediting actions during the aggravation of the situation in the republic. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian leader.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a special department for the development of artificial intelligence in its structure. This was reported on the website of the Russian government on April 26.

The number of people vaccinated against coronavirus by the first component of the Sputnik V vaccine exceeded 667.3 thousand people in the army and navy. Many of them were also vaccinated with the second component of the drug. In total, the Armed Forces delivered almost 706 thousand doses of the vaccine against a life-threatening infection.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree on the establishment of the Federal state-owned Institution "The Main Information Technology Center of the National Guard of the Russian Federation".

A Ukrainian spy who tried to buy spare parts for S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems in Russia for 163 thousand dollars was sentenced to 10 years in a penal colony in Kuban, the FSB of Russia reported on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on conscription of citizens who are in reserve for military training. "To call in 2021 the citizens of the Russian Federation, who are in reserve, to pass military training in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the bodies of the Federal Security Service," the presidential decree says, published on the official portal of legal information.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law that allows reservists to be called up for service in a day without declaring mobilization. This was reported on April 21 by the press service of the Ukrainian President.

As reported in Roscosmos, the court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles

The Court of Appeal overturned the decision to suspend construction work on the launch complex "Angara" of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was reported to TASS in the press service of Roscosmos on Wednesday.

This initiative was made by academician Lev Zeleny

The General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences plans to once again take the initiative to create a space council under the President of the Russian Federation. This was stated by the President of the Academy Alexander Sergeev at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On Tuesday, April 20, the heads of medical services of the CSTO member states determined the order of anti-epidemic measures for the arrival, participation and departure of contingents at joint exercises.

In the Center for Combat Use and Retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian Navy's Naval Aviation in Yeisk, the cadets of the training battalion were released, who completed the training cycle.

The crews of the newest corvettes "Sharp" and "Zealous" after the stage of theoretical training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy in St. Petersburg begin to practice practical actions on training and training complexes as part of the ship's combat crews.

The first team of recruits of the Strategic Missile Forces arrived in the Tatishchev rocket compound (Saratov region) for military service on conscription. Many of the recruits have higher education and sports categories in various sports.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the first unit equipped with combat robots will be formed in the Russian army in the near future. According to the head of the General Staff of the Ground Forces V. Tonkoshurov, we are talking about five "Uran-9" robocomplexes developed by specialists of 766 UPTK (Nakhabino, Moscow region). In total, the unit will receive two dozen combat vehicles.

MIPT professor Golubkin was arrested in Moscow on suspicion of treason

In Moscow, a professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) was arrested on suspicion of treason.) Valeria Golubkina. The professor himself, who deals with the problems of hypersonic technologies, did not admit guilt. The university where he teaches said that he did not have access to information that represents state secrets.

As cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky noted, in order to understand whether Russia needs its own space station in the event of the closure of the ISS, it is necessary to understand its ultimate task

Private space companies can create a new space station. This opinion was expressed in an interview with TASS by Russian cosmonaut and scientist Sergei Ryazansky.

Britain has confirmed that it plans to establish a joint unit with Qatar to operate BAE Systems ' advanced Hawk AJT training aircraft as part of an expanded military cooperation agreement signed by the two countries on April 1.