Structure and personnel news

Russians are also trained in such organizations, the minister stressed

Propaganda centers, which train Russians, among others, to conduct subversive information work in Russia, have been established in Riga, Tallinn and Warsaw. This was announced on Friday by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise.

It is necessary to focus on securing people in the army by creating conditions for life, recreation, and raising children, since the number of contract soldiers in the Russian Armed Forces is consistently increasing. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with the staff of the Krasmash enterprise in Krasnoyarsk on Friday.

Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern JSC will receive more than 11% of the shares of Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant JSC from federal ownership, according to the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NASA has announced the recruitment of volunteers to participate in an experiment to simulate life on Mars. This was announced on August 7 by the Abc13 TV channel.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, on the air of Solovyov Live, called for the restoration of the death penalty for corruption in the military-industrial complex (MIC).

In Poland, opponents of vaccination against coronavirus infection will be banned from wearing military uniforms. This was stated by the Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak on Twitter on Friday, August 6.

The Deputy Prime Minister noted that under the leadership of Vladimir Lepin, the heavy flamethrower system TOS-2 and the remote mining engineering system "Agriculture"were started and brought to state tests.

With the arrival of Vladimir Lepin as general director of the Kalashnikov Concern, the export potential of the enterprise will be fully realized, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

The appointment of a new head of the Group of Companies will be considered at a meeting of the Board of Directors on August 10

The former head of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC) Dmitry Tarasov left his post in connection with the transition to another job. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In the largest weapons concern Kalashnikov, the general director will be replaced, the name of the new head is Vladimir Lepin.

Now he is acting as CEO instead of Dmitry Tarasov, who left at his own request, who headed the concern since September 2019. A purely formal decision on the change of management will be made at a meeting of the board of directors on August 10.

In the Eastern Military District, in the army aviation unit stationed in the Khabarovsk Territory, young pilots are mastering Ka-52 attack helicopters.

The British have officially launched the Space Command. The Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom indicates that the space forces will protect the interests and capabilities of the country in space.

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian signed a decree on Monday appointing Arshak Karapetyan to the post of Defense Minister of the republic.

The former head of the food department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Andrey Berezhnoy, partially admitted guilt in the case of a bribe that exceeds 1 billion rubles.

This year, the paratroopers will receive more than 300 units of weapons and equipment, the equipment with modern models will reach 75%

The number of contract servicemen in the Russian Airborne Troops will increase to 80% by the end of next year, said the commander of the Airborne Forces Andrey Serdyukov.

The Bonhomme Richard fire may become one of the most expensive sabotages in the history of the American armed forces. On July 30, the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy reported that the US Navy has brought official charges against one of the crew members of the landing ship.

Tatyana Ostashchenko became the first woman to hold the post of commander of the medical forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was announced on Friday, July 30, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has set a task to reduce the time for submitting documents and registering for military registration in military commissariats.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the laws "On the foundations of national Resistance" and on increasing the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

He did this during a trip to the Zhytomyr region at a ceremony congratulating the military on the day of Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The United States imposes the creation of structures similar to NATO on the states of Southeast Asia, while long-term hotbeds of tension are formed in the area of responsibility of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This was stated on July 28 by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting of the heads of defense ministries of the SCO member states.