there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks. |
There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises, |
There should be no doubt that the government will officially approve of the defense contract in December, |
They have been unified and are to be supplied both to the Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy. |
This issue has been widely discussed for years, including in closed-door talks between Russia and the United States. |
This may happen. I suppose so, |
This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen, |
Ukraine's possible accession to NATO is a very sensitive issue. Attempts to drastically reorient [itself] towards western values could prove a major destabilization factor, above all for Ukrainian society, since a year of democratic reform has not yielded noticeable results. |
We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3. |
We are considering whether it will report to the commandant's office or to some other department. Anyway, every country's military police operates within the structure of the defense ministry. It may be subordinate to the General Staff. |
We are not exporting autocracy, and it makes no sense to export democracy. Democracy is not a bag of potatoes that can be planted in any place and successfully grown. |
We believe Europeans' striving to have their own forces to ensure their security and to eliminate crisis situations is well founded, and are prepared to act together with them in these matters, |
We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is. |
We have effective nuclear weapons, and we are not trying to increase their number but rather to improve their quality and effectiveness, to make them hard to intercept. |
We offered the United States our help the first day of the disaster, |