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Russia test-fires new ballistic missile

May 23, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia test-fired a new prototype ballistic missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk Region, Defense Ministry spokesman said.

Russia destroys 62% of its chemical weapons

May 2, 2012 RIA Novosti
About 25,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, or 62 percent of Russia’s stockpile, have been destroyed by April 29, the day when the International Chemical Weapons Convention came into force.

Russia 3rd largest military spender worldwide – Analysts

April 17, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia’s military expenditures in 2011 totaled $71.9 billion making the country the world’s 3rd largest military spender, says Stockholm International Peace Research Institute think tank

Arms sales high, but hard times loom

April 5, 2012 Ruslan Pukhov, The Moscow Times
2011 was another record year for deliveries — $13.2 billion, up from $10.4 billion in 2010. That is a significant increase. But the figure reflects the fulfillment of contracts that had been signed in previous years

Renovated military museum reopens to mark battle of Borodino anniversary in 2012

March 7, 2012 Russiky Mir Foundation
A selection of British weaponry from the Napoleonic Wars and a pair of original Boutet dueling pistols are among four hundred beauties to enrich the Russian museum’s historical Battle of Borodino collection

The midnight hour for nuclear disarmament

March 1, 2012 Gareth Evans, The Moscow Times
The doomsday clock's hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia exports record $13.2 bn in arms

February 16, 2012 Combined reports
Russia set an arms export record of $13.2 billion (10.1 billion euros) last year despite losing Arab clients and facing stiffer competition from China, a top official was quoted as saying Thursday.

India imports 25% of Russian weapons

February 16, 2012 Combined reports
According to a report released by Novosti Press, Russia has ranked 2nd biggest global arms exporter. The report quoted head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev as saying that Russia sold $13.2 billion worth of

Russia may sell $14 bln worth of weaponry in 2012

February 13, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia’s arms exports may reach a record $14 billion in 2012, a Russian think-tank said on Friday.

Two workers convicted for making pen guns in Far East

February 8, 2012 RIA Novosti
A court in the Far Eastern Amur Region sentenced two workers of a military plant who covertly produced pen guns, a spokesman for the region’s military authority said on Wednesday.

Three new weapons plants to arm Russia and its neighbors

February 1, 2012 RT.com
Russia is planning to build three new plants to produce anti-missile defense systems.

Russia unveils new Kalashnikov assault rifle

January 27, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia's largest firearms manufacturer, Izhmash, has unveiled a prototype of its new Kalasnikov assault rifle with improved ergonomics and tactical flexibility.

Top 10 highlights of Russian defence tech (2011: In retrospect)

December 27, 2011 Slon.ru
The year 2011 saw Russia consolidating its position as the world’s pre-eminent supplier of cutting-edge, headline-grabbing military weaponry.

Russia ranked 2nd biggest global arms exporter – arms think tank

December 23, 2011 RIA Novosti
Russia became the world’s second largest arms exporter in 2011 after the United States, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT), Igor Korotchenko said on Friday.

Russia ready to support private arms makers

December 22, 2011 RIA Novosti
Russia’s Defense Ministry is ready to lend support to private manufacturers of arms, especially small arms and light weapons, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.

Russian military to get new equipment

December 8, 2011 Oleg Nekhai, The Voice of Russia
The Russian government is to set aside almost three trillion rubles, or 130 billion dollars, to equip the armed forces with more modern hardware in the next few years.

Lone private gun maker targets locals

December 2, 2011 Anatoly Medetsky, The Moscow Times
Besides the notorious Kalashnikov, Russia’s gun market is flooded with firearm imports from Austria, Britain, Finland and Germany. The idea of Alexei Sorokin is to compete with imports by offering “higher quality at a reasonable price.”

The Russian aerospace defense system will become operational on 1 December.

December 1, 2011 RIR
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told a Defense Ministry collegium that a new branch of the Russian armed forces – the Aerospace Defense Forces (ADF) – would be established by early December.

Flying eye: Russia deploys new aerial radar

November 3, 2011 Russia Today
The Russian Air Force has deployed the upgraded version of the Beriev A-50 flying radar. It is also jointly developing flying radar based on the A-50, designed together with India.

Russia to remain 2nd biggest arms exporter to the Asia Pacific Region in 2011-2014 (CAWAT)

October 19, 2011 RIR
Russia, with $21.87 billion, will remain the second biggest weapons exporter in value terms to the Asia Pacific Region in 2011-2014, after the United States.
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