Structure and personnel news

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on medical contraindications for the possession of weapons and strengthening state control over their turnover, follows on May 26 from the data on the website of the lower house of parliament.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia for the Moscow Region has completed investigative actions in a criminal case on the theft of more than 1 billion rubles in supplies for the scientific and energy module (NEM) of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on Wednesday, May 26, according to Kommersant.

The Rocket and Space Corporation Energia suffered billions of dollars in losses in 2020. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the company's statement.

At the Russian military base of the Southern Military District (SE) in Abkhazia, the number of people wishing to enter military service under a contract has increased.

The President of the Russian Federation noted a qualitative increase in the level of training of the command staff

The vast majority of commanders of formations and regiments of the Russian Armed Forces have passed through Syria and rely on this combat experience in the training of units and divisions. This was stated on Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening a series of defense meetings in Sochi.

The arms holding company Česká Zbrojovka Group bought the legendary American company Colt. The transaction amount was $220 million, the Izvestia TV channel reports. The takeover of Colt fits into the development strategy of the Czech company, which, according to its head, wants to become a world leader in the production of firearms.

Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru commanded the Nigerian army for less than six months. On May 22, the BBC news agency reported that the crew of a Beechcraft King Air 350 aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force and 11 of its passengers were killed in a plane crash near Kaduna International Airport.

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.