The article views the Russian defense budget as a representation of national strategic interests, priorities, and policies. Although Russia conforms to the United Nations' statistical standard for reporting military expenditure, several budget categories are hidden in other parts of the federal...

The number of Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) authorized strength at year-end 2017 increased 17,387 to 1,903,758 on the back of disbandment of the Federal Special Construction Agency (Spetsstroy); therefore, the RFAF's total authorized strength rose to 1,013,628 from 1 million. That was the first...

In 2018, the total strength of the Armed Forces (AF) of the Russian Federation did not change. Early in February 2018, the President of the Russian Federation increased by 200 persons to 10,740 persons the ultimate staff number of the Central Office of the Ministry of Defense (without the...

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,...

In early 2012 the Armed Forces (AF) were overshadowed by the accident with the fleet ballistic missile submarine (FBMS) K-84 "Yekaterinburg" and its grave consequences. The fire occurred three days before the New Year, during welding works as part of unscheduled repairs of the FBMS and where, in...

This paper deals with a wide choice of issues related to Russia's military-industrial complex, defence policy and military procurements in 2009. The year of 2009 saw an unprecedented acceleration of the genuine military reform. This can be ascribed first to the fact that in the wake of the war...

This paper deals with a wide choice of issues related to the Russian defense budget, defense policy, military procurements, etc. From the financial perspective, the year of 2010 started with a unusually early (of 12/04/2009) notification of the national military organization's chief controllers...

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 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...

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...