Russia 110224 Basic Political Developments

Russia offers Azerbaijan to organize armored vehicle production

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24.02.2011 13:08

Rosoboronexport offered Azerbaijan to organize the licensed production of "Tiger" armored vehicles in the country, Assistant to the Azerbaijani Defense Industry Minister Azad Mammadov told ARMS-TASS at the 10th International Salon of Weapons and Military Equipment IDEX-2011 in Abu Dhabi.

"Rosoboronexport offered a number of interesting proposals on joint military equipment production. This is, in particular, a project concerning the production of armored vehicles. We have received a proposal and are considering it,” Mammadov said. He added that representatives of the company have repeatedly visited Azerbaijan to make presentations.

Mammadov noted that the country's production capacity is able to manufacture the “Tiger.”

"We already have experience in licensed production," he said.
He added that under an agreement with South Africa, Azerbaijani companies are already carrying out orders to supply the "Marauder" machinery.

In Kyrgyzstan to retune television receivers to First Russian TV channel new frequency

24/02-2011 12:17, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Julia MAZYKINA

Viewers of the capital and Chui province of Kyrgyzstan were promised to retune television receivers to the new frequency of the First Russian TV Channel, as reported by Natalia Bulgakova, PR-manager of press-service of “First TV Channel. Worldwide Net”.

As reported, Kyrgyz Public Service Broadcasting (OTRK), Republican Production Association of television and radio broadcasting microwave lines (RPORMTR), and First TV Channel-Kyrgyzstan held meeting, devoted to discussion of Russian channel reception quality at the territory of the republic.

Note, on February 7, 2011 broadcast frequencies of First Channel – Kyrgyzstan and OTRK channels were changed. It was performed with the aim to improve broadcasting quality of OTRK, which is now at the 11th frequency. In connection with this fact First Channel and Russian Embassy received a lot of complains from residents of Bishkek and Chui province about signal reception quality deterioration.

“In order to continue to watch your favorite programs on First TV Channel - Kyrgyzstan in good quality, viewers need to retune their television sets. RPORMTR experts are ready to provide assistance in resolving this problem – up to sight survey. Viewers can receive all the necessary consultations on TV retuning by calling to RPORMTR technical support phone numbers: 67-05-10, 67-11-11. In its turn, the First Channel-Kyrgyzstan will continue to monitor the signal quality on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic in order to avoid technical problems,” says the message.

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24.02.2011 11:34

Soviet soldiers remembered in Cuba

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Feb 24, 2011 00:59 Moscow Time

Top Cuban military leaders and  diplomats from Russia, Belarus and other countries  laid floral tributes at a memorial to the Soviet Soldier-Internationalist in a Havana suburb on Wednesday.

Speaking at the ceremony, timed for Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23 Cuba’s first cosmonaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendes, said  that the Cuban people appreciated what the Russian military has been doing for global  peace and  remained all set to expand across-the-board defense cooperation with Russia.

Russian arms exports to soar

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Feb 24, 2011 10:54 Moscow Time

The backlog of orders for Russian armaments has grown substantially to $48 billion, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev said.

The budgeted sales for the year surpassed $9.5 billion, he said in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper. According to forecasts by the Center for Global Trade Analysis, aircraft engineering will form one third of Russia’s military export in 2011.

Russian military to purchase 600 planes, 100 ships

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The Associated Press
Thursday, February 24, 2011; 3:54 AM

MOSCOW -- Russian news agencies are citing Defense Ministry officials as saying the country will spend $650 billion to equip its dilapidated military with 600 new warplanes, 100 ships and 1,000 helicopters by 2020.

The agencies quote First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin as saying Thursday that the ambitious plan envisages eight new nuclear submarines and two Mistral aircraft carriers in addition to the two that Russian is buying from France.

The announcement comes during a large-scale streamlining of personnel in Russia's bloated and poorly equipped armed forces. The unpopular reforms of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov have seen as many as 200,000 officers lose their jobs and nine of every 10 army units disbanded.

02/24 11:38   RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PLANS TO COMMISSION BULAVA MISSILE BY END OF 2011 - DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER POPOVKIN

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11:16

RUSSIAN ARMY TO BUY ABOUT 100 S-400 AND S-500 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS - FIRST DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER POPOVKIN

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02/24 11:44   Mistral deal included in Russian weapons procurement program - Defense Ministry 

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02/24 11:43   Russian army to acquire eight submarines with Bulava missiles by 2020 - Defense Ministry 

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02/24 11:42   Ten Russian brigades to be armed with Iskander-M tactical missile systems http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=224463

February 24, 2011 11:40

Russian Army to buy over 600 planes, 1,000 helicopters by 2020 - Defense Ministry

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MOSCOW. Feb 24 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Armed Forces will buy over 600 planes and more than 1,000 helicopters before 2020, First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin told reporters on Thursday.

"It is planned to buy over 600 planes and more than 1,000 helicopters before 2020," he told a press conference dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day at the House of Journalists.

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