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According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, a digital library has been created for the armed forces

Designers of modern weapons have started teaching in military universities of the Russian Federation, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said on Friday at a lecture of the educational marathon "New Knowledge".

Scans conducted by scientists at University College London and the University of Oxford showed that people who use a robotic "Third Thumb" change the brain activity responsible for the movement of the hand. This allows them to learn how to use a manipulator to solve complex tasks, such as stirring coffee in a cup or building a tower of wooden bars, in just a few days. The results of the study are published in the journal Science Robotics.

In 109 civilian universities of Russia, military training centers have been opened, where students are trained in the programs of soldiers, sergeants and officers. As the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, said at the lecture of the marathon "New Knowledge", the instruction on this issue was given by the president, in one of the messages.

The EMERCOM of Russia will have its own design bureau for the development of robotic systems of the future. It sounds loud, but maybe that's not just how it will be on paper. At least, the scientists of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have already signed an agreement with the Central Research Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics on cooperation and very much hope for success.

In Russia, there are new airline complexes, they have no analogues in the world, combat surface and submarine ships due to a prudent attitude to finance, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the third reading, the plenary session of the State Duma considered and adopted the draft laws "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation" and "On Amendments to Article 51 of the Federal Law "On Military Duty and Military Service".

The Military Training Center of the North Caucasus Federal University accepts applications for participation in the competitive selection until May 29

The Military Training Center of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) has opened a new military accounting specialty. Since 2021, the university will begin training reserve officers, the press center of the university reported on Tuesday.

In his opinion, this is due to the lack of ideology

As part of his speech at the forum "Youth and Science" in Nizhny Novgorod, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev criticized the level of knowledge of graduates of Russian universities. This is reported by the press service of the Lobachevsky National Research University.

In the Southern Military District (SE) in the Volgograd region, more than 320 junior specialists of the training battalion of the railway troops passed final exams in 7 military accounting specialties.

The special Operations forces of the Russian Defense Ministry plan to go on expeditions to the Kemerovo Region, Altai and Gorny Altai next year. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel. As TASS emphasizes, during such expeditions, special forces are trained in survival skills in a variety of conditions.

"The President of the country supported our initiative to develop a network of centers for military-patriotic education of young people "Avangard". It is planned to create them not only at the regional level, but also in cities with a population of more than one hundred thousand people, " Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday at a conference call with representatives of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The Armed Forces have created a multifunctional system for training qualified specialists in the interests of the country's defense. It is closely connected with military-patriotic work. "The projects, the programs that the Ministry of Defense is conducting in this direction - they are all interconnected," the head of the department, Sergei Shoigu, said on a conference call on Friday.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov said that in the near future, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky may sign a decree on the creation of cyber forces in the country, this issue was discussed at a meeting of the NSDC in closed mode on Friday, May 14.

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".