Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The heads of state exchanged pre-New Year greetings and best wishes. In connection with the discussion of the topic ...

On Wednesday, the State Duma held a government hour with the participation of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. The head of the Ministry of Defense behind closed doors told parliamentarians about the progress of military reform, the decision of social and ...

As it turned out, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov could allow his department to purchase expensive foreign cars, each of which would cost the budget 6 million rubles a year. And this...

In Pskov, sick conscripts are sent to the army, promising to cure them during their service. This is reported by the Pskov Soldiers' Mothers Council. In conscription commissions, future soldiers are told ...

The initiators of military reform are once again returning to ideas, the failure of which they themselves have recently recognized. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation General of the Army Nikolay Makarov December 14 in an interview ...

The 28 separate disciplinary battalion in Mulino is one of the two disbats remaining in Russia. The second is near Chita. But even in those times when there were more dysbats in the country, the Mulin was considered one of ...

December 14 early in the morning in the dormitory building of the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, people in police uniform staged a raid. Students raised from ...

According to some independent experts and experts, the Russian army a year loses about two thousand people with non-combat losses, for 5 years, an amount comparable in state to a full-fledged ...

An officer of modern Russia - who is he? Does he proudly wear his uniform or is he ashamed of it? The answer for many is obvious. Especially for the officers themselves and for their families. The sacred duty of every citizen is ...

A unique decision for modern Russia was made recently by the Lyuberetsky garrison military court. The post was reinstated by Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Biront (on Wednesday he received an acquittal into his hands ...

The new look of the Russian army has already become the talk of the town. All sensible people tirelessly criticize him. But Medvedev, Putin, Serdyukov and others stubbornly bend their line. Although anyone more or less ...

In November, the authorities decided to calculate how much the Russian military would cost the new military uniform from Valentin Yudashkin, which the army was already trying on on two Victory Parades. Forecasts are strong ...

This year ends the history of higher military education in Russia. At least in the form in which it existed until now, it will not be. Defense Department...

Steps are starting for greater integration of the armed forces in the former Soviet space The heads of the General Headquarters of the CIS countries on Friday signed a number of agreements aimed at increasing interaction ...

Today in one of the blogs I read about how a regiment was sold in 1992. At first, I just wrote a comment, and then I realized that this commentary translates into an entire article. Many military personnel and ...

The very next day after the Message of the President of the Russian Federation, in which the head of state, including, stated that the military should be primarily engaged in combat training, the Ministry of Defense ...

Speaking yesterday to the participants of the gathering of commanders of the formations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, timed to the holding of motorized rifle tactical exercises at the largest in Europe military training ground "Gorokhovetsky" in ...

To begin with a couple of quotes. “In order for the regiment to be ready to perform tasks, it was necessary to carry out a large range of activities: to receive personnel from the military commissariats, equipment from the ...

Anatoly Serdyukov, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, at the on-site Board of the Ministry, which met on Thursday at the site of the Western Military District in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, reported on the creation of a new ...

The Defense Minister held a meeting of the head of the military department with representatives of the leading Russian media. The informational reason for it was the completion of the next stage of the reform ...

The Ministry of Defense intends to expand the recruitment of contractor from among foreigners On the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On Amending the Regulation on ...

A separate guards order of Suvorov and Alexander Nevsky, the Belostok brigade of the marines of the Baltic Fleet, is considered to be the foremost unit among the coastal units of the Russian Navy ...

The question is quite interesting if such an unpredictable yet unfortunately country as Russia will be mentioned here. The fact is that I know the soldier’s environment very well, since my father is Soviet ...

Several photos of fighters with the radio station P-168-0.1 in 6B23-1 bullet-proof vests with the automatic machine "Val" ...