Structure and personnel news

The majority of Russian citizens (86%) expressed confidence in the ability of the Russian army to ensure the security of the country. This is evidenced by the data obtained during the survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), provided on Tuesday, June 15.

Green energy giants are facing a shortage of skilled workers to help them implement ambitious development plans, writes Bloomberg.

As the Vedomosti newspaper reported in the article by Alexey Nikolsky, "Former top managers of the Zvezda defense enterprise were detained in St. Petersburg. The criminal case against them may be related to disruptions of import substitution."

"We have completed vaccination by almost 93 percent, including not only military personnel, but also their relatives," Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday at a plenary meeting of the Public Council under the Russian Defense Ministry.

The head of the Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, attended the training of naval special forces in the Southern Military District. On the air of Sputnik radio, the director of the Center for Military and Political Studies of MGIMO, Alexey Podberezkin, spoke about the peculiarities of the training of special forces soldiers.

All military commissariats of the country will be updated, including technically equipped. Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu announced the start of the program of updating military enlistment offices on Wednesday. According to him, military registration and enlistment offices in all Russian regions will be brought up to date.

The Russian rocket and space industry must be forever cleansed of "filth" and "rot", said on Wednesday, June 9, the head of "Roscosmos" Dmitry Rogozin on the radio station "Vesti FM".

In addition, several girls are preparing for service in the assault aviation, said Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov

The first fighter pilots who will control modern combat aircraft will appear in the near future in the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation. This was reported to journalists on Tuesday by the State Secretary, Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Nikolai Pankov.

Tatyana Andreeva-Yanskaya, a graduate of the General Staff Academy, will become the new deputy head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin for construction, RBC reports, citing two sources close to the state corporation.

In 2026-2028, Roscosmos allows the transfer of control of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) to a private company. Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the state corporation, has named a new way of earning money on the international project "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

Currently, the problem of evaders from military service is not serious, the number of such cases has been declining for several years. This was announced on Tuesday, June 8, by a representative of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Sniper training is a special art, which is given great attention in the preparation of special forces units. The Siberian officer shared some nuances practiced by sniper groups during the capture of the building of the rifle artillery range.

As reported by the head of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov, Yevgeny Kryukov, vaccination of military personnel is almost finished

Russian military personnel have developed a collective immunity to the coronavirus as a result of a successful vaccination campaign. This was announced by the head of the Military Medical Academy named after S. M. Kirov Yevgeny Kryukov on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

According to the head of Roscosmos, this is necessary in conditions of limited budget allocations for the development of the space industry

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, did not rule out that private capital will come to the state corporation's enterprises in 2021.

Former journalist Ivan Safronov, who was arrested on charges of treason, continues to be an employee of Roscosmos, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2021 answered a question from NTV presenter Aina Nikolaeva about the "correspondence controversy" with the head of SpaceX Elon Musk.

The Russian state corporation "Roscosmos" lost a large sum due to fraudulent actions. The funds were stolen more than five years ago, but a criminal case on the fact of theft on a particularly large scale was opened only now, a source told Izvestia on Thursday, June 3.

At the Vostochny cosmodrome, new frauds worth hundreds of millions of rubles were revealed, the investigative department of the TFR in the Amur Region opened two criminal cases. This became known to the newspaper "Kommersant".

The Office will have its own budget

The Ministry of Defense will form an office for working with artificial intelligence with its own budget by December 2021. This was announced on Monday by Mikhail Osyko, a member of the Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The Russian Defense Ministry will form about 20 new formations and military units in the Western Military District in response to the actions of NATO countries. On the air of Sputnik radio, this decision was commented on by a military expert, candidate of Historical Sciences Ivan Konovalov.