Structure and personnel news

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Earlier, the General Director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that private space companies in the next 10 years will begin a powerful integration with the companies of the state corporation

Russian private companies are not yet able to perform major tasks of Roscosmos, said the General Director of Glavkosmos (part of Roscosmos) Dmitry Loskutov on Monday in an interview with the RBC TV channel.

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.

According to the Brazilian Navy Command, on March 30, the Federal Official Gazette published Resolution No. 90 / MB/MD of March 29, 2021 on the creation of the 1st squadron of reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (EsqdQE-1).

Severnaya Verf carried out the technological launch of the Mercury corvette. It happened in March, but it became known about it only now.

According to the newspaper" Kommersant "in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva and Alexander Dremlyugin, Rostec will part with the" Sea". The Crimean shipyard will be transferred to USC , and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will include another shipyard - the Feodosiya Sea, which now belongs to Rostec. The timing and mechanism of the transfer are still unknown.

The crews of the newest corvettes "Sharp " and" Zealous " arrived for training at the Navy training center in St. Petersburg. The training cycle will take two months.

New recruits will have to part with smartphones, they will only be able to take a push-button phone to the recruiting station, a representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation said.

The President agreed that nationalization is possible "if the owners do not cope with the current work and can not effectively use, including the assistance from the state, which is generally provided."

The crews of the newest PMO ships of the project 12700 "Pyotr Ilyichev" and "Georgy Kurbatov", as well as the patrol ship of the project 22160 "Sergey Kotov" completed a full cycle of training at the Joint Naval Training Center in St. Petersburg.