Now it is no secret to anyone that Russia is in the so-called demographic hole. Therefore, the current spring appeal is on the verge of failure. Until July 15, it is planned to deliver ...

The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, who has just taken up his duties, recently held a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. During it, before the minister ...

In April 2012 of the year, at the meeting of the State Duma, while hearing the report of the Prime Minister on the results of the work of the Government, the issue of creating a private military companies system (PMC) in Russia was discussed ....

For the families of many servicemen, there is one big problem, which has the name of apartment moving. It happens that a young officer who barely had time to start a family ...

Numerous studies that have been carried out on the readiness of young people to perform military service show that at present there is a very dangerous downward trend ...

When it comes to exemplary military units in Russia, in most cases, parts of such status described in the media are today in the Moscow Military District. It would seem that,...

The peculiarity of the phenomenon of hazing is that it arose almost instantly and just as quickly became a kind of subculture. However, to come to the unequivocal conclusion that ...

The chemical element bromine is considered conditionally essential element. Until today, it is impossible to say exactly about the full knowledge of the physiological role of bromine. Details on bromine are described on the website ...

The military conflict with Georgia in 2008, in which the Russian Armed Forces were involved on the side of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, showed the need for urgent reforms in the Russian army ....

As you know, the creators of weapons in different countries of the world at different times fed and continue to harbor a serious craving for calling their offspring bright and memorable names. It can be...

The tradition of giving names to weapons based on their external similarity to any objects dates back to the 16th century. It was then that grenades appeared in service with the French army, and the soldiers ...

Military personnel and veterans of the Interior Troops of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia 27 March celebrated their professional holiday. The reform, which touched the armed forces, did not bypass the “second army”. Recall more ...

In the Russian armed forces there is a paradoxical situation, when the agency, which was actively engaged in the dismissal of officers, decided to extend their term of service. According to ...

Perhaps, in the modern history of the national army there was not yet a topic that caused so many disputes as the state armaments program, calculated up to 2020 of the year (LG-2020). The main reason for all the talk on ...

Lieutenant-General V. Shamanov, commander of the Airborne Forces, announced that a new post would soon appear in the Russian armed forces - a master sergeant, which ...

I served in the Soviet Army in 1988-1990. I was lucky, and I ended up in a training regiment (training) in the suburbs. I'll tell you right away. There was no hazing, there was the so-called "hazing ...

There are many problems in our society. Let us dwell on such an acute and significant problem as violence in the army, or, in other words, “hazing”. “Hazing” in the form in which it manifests itself ...

Modern life is flying so fast that there is absolutely not enough time to carry out any experiments on the state’s defense capability. Every day more and more real ...

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation provided a draft law, according to which the age limit for military service will be increased. In the event that such an initiative finds ...

Digital Battlefield (Digital Battlespace) - a very fashionable term in recent years in international military slang. Along with "network-centric warfare" (Network-centric warfare *), ...

In late January, a conference of the Academy of Military Sciences (AVN) was held in Moscow. A lot of reports were read at the conference and all of them are of interest to the military and civil society, because ...

Today, in the era of globalization, the state of any modern economy is determined by its endowment with energy resources. The existing dependence will continue for the foreseeable future, not even ...

In the 2012 year, according to information disseminated by the media, the Russian Federation and India will resume conducting joint annual exercises of the ground forces, known as ...

They do not emit a warlike rumble, they do not sparkle with a polished surface, they are not decorated with chased coats of arms and plumes and are often quite often hidden under jackets. However, today without these ...