Departmental statistics of growth in production in the defense sector is highly distorted by liberalization of requirements to fulfillment of the state defense order on the part of the Ministry of Defense and the Military Industrial Commission. Despite the international sanctions, in 2015 the...

After the July and September meetings of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation, the RF Government continued its search for a compromise concerning the ceiling for budget funding to be allocated to the next government armaments program for 2018–2025; however, the target...

Regional consolidated budgets are facing three main trends in 2015, namely marked growth of budget revenues, slower growth of budget expenditures, insignificant growth of debts and enhanced debt profile. The dynamics of the regional consolidated budget revenues in 2015 (according to the data on...

Indicators of output growth in the defense sector have lagged far behind the target figures. Growth in public investment rates is overtaking growth in output, thereby causing abnormal growth in prices of defense industry products and upsurge in corruption. Meeting the President's requirements on...

In the new version of the Military Doctrine, the topical issues of the Russian Military Doctrine remained unchanged in general, however, such objectives as optimization of defense expenditures, efficient planning and allocation of financial and material resources were excluded from its text,...

The defense industry's 2015 preliminary performance results have been published. Early fulfillment of the state armament program's intermediate target index shows that military expenditures are of an excessive nature. Agencies' reporting data are controversial and need be specified. Russia's...

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia has officially published a list of enterprises operating in the Russian Defense Industry Complex (DIC), thereby making it possible to assess the key indicators of the DIC's size which have changed insignificantly over the past six months. However, the...

The new National Security Strategy preserved the pattern and logical shortcomings of the previous one. The new strategy was also published amid a dramatic economic slump and that immediately threw into question a number of its provisions. Lack of foundation in terms of the Strategy of Social and...

The State Defense Order 2012 was implemented nearly 80%. Being limited in labor force, Russia’s defense plants are facing problems related to drastically increased the State Defense Order 2013. President Putin’s requirements to create a transparent military economy, establish order in terms...

One year has passed since the Russian Defense Ministry established the National Defense Control Center, similar to that of the EMERCOM. According to the point of view prevailing in mass media, the NDCC has since then proved efficient command and control center for military training and...