Conference call chaired by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation S. Shoigu

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03.05.2018 (14:13)

Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu held a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces

The Minister of Defense submitted five questions for discussion.

The first concerned the increase in the current year of monetary allowances for military personnel, wages civilian personnel Armed Forces and military pensions for citizens discharged from military service.

As Sergei Shoigu emphasized, the country's leadership pays great attention to this social aspect of the life of the army and navy.

At the initiative of the Ministry of Defense, the President of the Russian Federation made a decision from January 1 of this year within three years annually index the salaries of military personnel by at least four percent.

Also, since the beginning of the year, pensions for military pensioners and wages for civilian personnel have been increased by four percent. For these purposes, in 2018, the military department was additionally allocated 38.6 billion rubles.

In addition, the Minister of Defense noted, work is underway to ensure the amount of monetary allowance is not lower than wages in the leading sectors of the economy, indexation of military pensions above the inflation rate and increase wages for certain categories of workers.

Tatyana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defense, spoke about this in more detail.

She informed that since 2012, military pensions have been increased by 39.1 percent. The average size military pension for length of service exceeds the size of the insurance pension of employees by 1.75 times and amounts to 24.6 thousand rubles.

“Thanks to the consistent work of the Russian Ministry of Defense in conjunction with State Duma and the Federation Council, in the absence of indexation of monetary allowance from 2012 to 2017, made decisions on the annual increase in military pensions to the level of inflation,” the Deputy Minister specified.

Tatyana Shevtsova also said that in addition to military pensions, since April 1, 2018, social pensions have been indexed by 2.9 percent for such categories of pensioners as participants in the Great Patriotic War, disabled war veterans, combat veterans, persons over 80 years of age.

Additionally, taking into account the merits of the older generation in the Great Victory, on April 5, 2018, the President of the Russian Federation decided to pay annually (and not only in anniversary years) a one-time payment to disabled people and participants in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 at the rate of 10 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Defense actively participated in the preparation of the draft Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on this issue.

In accordance with this decision, in May - June 2018 additional payment more than 10,780 military pensioners will be provided.

As a result of the ongoing purposeful work of the Russian Ministry of Defense in the context of cost reduction federal budget managed to maintain and additionally increase budget allocations for socially significant issues.

So, for 2018, the Ministry of Finance of Russia increased the expenses of the military department for the provision of subsidies to military personnel for the purchase or construction of residential premises ( the new kind provision of military housing) - 37,000 million rubles;

For compensation for rent (sublease) of residential premises to servicemen - 1,574 million rubles;

To provide high-tech medical care personnel of the Armed Forces - 946 million rubles.

This will make it possible, Tatyana Shevtsova stressed, to further ensure the social security of servicemen.

Then, the meeting reviewed the progress in placing the state defense order for 2018 and the planning period of 2019-2020.

Sergei Shoigu said that the state defense order for this year provides for the placement of more than 3,700 tasks worth about 1.5 trillion rubles.

Almost 70 percent of these funds, the Minister of Defense stressed, will go to serial purchases modern weapons and military equipment.

“Given the experience of implementing the State Defense Order over the past three years, this year we ensured the prolongation of long-term obligations, reduced the time for conducting competitive procedures and signing contracts with the only contractors. These measures will help to significantly reduce the risks of late execution of the state defense order,” the Minister of Defense noted, adding that on this moment almost 85 per cent of the total allocated funds have been awarded contracts.

“In general, the placement indicators of the State Defense Order-2018 are higher than last year. At the same time, there is not much time left until May 15 - the date of completion of the contracting, so the pace of placing the state defense order needs to be accelerated, ”the head of the military department set the task.

The next issue on the agenda was devoted to the implementation of government contracts in the interests of the Navy.

The Minister of Defense recalled that within the framework of the implementation of the state armament program, the construction, repair and maintenance of almost the entire range of warships and vessels is carried out by the United Shipbuilding Corporation.

In March, the company handed over a new vessel to the fleet logistic support Elbrus.

In April, the first serial basic minesweeper of project 12700 "Ivan Antonov" was launched.

By the end of the year, sailors will receive six more ships built and four repaired.

The conference also discussed steps to improve the system of training for engineering troops Armed Forces.

Two universities are now training specialists in this field.

At the Combined Arms Academy (Military Institute (engineering troops) 52 people study under the master's program. At the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School, training under the program higher education(specialty) are 1175 people and 135 students receive secondary vocational education.

"Strong Teaching Staff and high level acquired knowledge is attracted to these educational establishments more and more foreign listeners. At present, representatives of 30 countries are studying at the Tyumen School, and nine at the Combined Arms Academy,” the Minister of Defense noted and suggested evaluating the possibility of optimizing the system for training specialists for engineering troops.

In addition, the participants of the meeting considered how housing is provided for military personnel within the framework of the accumulative mortgage system.

Sergei Shoigu stressed that this form of housing acquisition is gaining popularity among the personnel.

Since 2012, the number of participants in the accumulative mortgage system in the Armed Forces has increased by 2.5 times and now exceeds 216 thousand people.

For example, last year, out of 23,000 servicemen who received housing, 13,000 took advantage of a mortgage.

“As you can see, in general, the system works well. In order for it not to fail, it is important to strictly observe the deadlines for the provision by military units required documents to the housing authorities,” said the Minister of Defense, who offered to hear how to improve this work.

In addition to the agenda, Sergei Shoigu drew the attention of the meeting participants to another important event. It directly concerned the area related to the training of military personnel.

The Minister of Defense announced that the fourth international cadet olympiad in foreign language, mathematics was held in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia, military history and informatics.

“I am pleased to note that our guys became winners in all subjects,” the head of the military department noted with satisfaction.

Sergei Shoigu explained that this year for the first time in knowledge foreign language and informatics competed "professionals" - future translators
and "IT people".

“And here our teams were the first,” the Minister of Defense emphasized.

He said that next year it is planned to hold international olympiads among Suvorov, Nakhimov and cadets. This proposal was supported by the defense ministers of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

"I ask the Main Directorate of Personnel to continue work in this area with the Commonwealth countries, to report on the results at the next meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS member states," the Minister of Defense instructed.

Sergei Shoigu also recalled that less than a week was left before the most important and revered holiday in Russia - Victory Day. Preparations for the military parade are in full swing.

Traditionally, it will present promising models of weapons and military equipment.

Among them are anti-aircraft missile systems "TOR-M2", combat vehicles"Terminator", robotic complexes "Uran-6" and "Uran-9", modern drones, military all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles.

In addition to the modern Su-57, Su-30SM and MIG-29SMT aircraft, the aviation component of the holiday will include upgraded MiG-31K equipped with the latest Kinzhal hypersonic missile system.

The Minister of Defense announced that the second night training of ceremonial crews would take place today. The dress rehearsal will take place on May 6th.

The head of the Ministry of Defense drew attention to the need to observe safety measures and rules for the operation of equipment during these events.

AT recent times conference calls constantly talk about the interaction of the military department with the regions in solving social issues military personnel and members of their families as part of the execution of the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

So it was this time. The meeting was attended by heads of three regions - Sakhalin region, the Republic of Crimea and the Republic of Khakassia.

The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that there is a steady trend in the region to improve social conditions for family members of military personnel.

“In general, in 2018 the problem of children of military personnel will be completely resolved,” he stressed.

Sakhalin Oblast Governor Oleg Kozhemyako promised to close the issue in the near future. In addition, he told what is being done for the employment of family members of military personnel. According to him, there are no problems with employment on Sakhalin itself.

The Governor of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin, also reported that the problem would soon be finally resolved. In addition, according to him, in Abakan, the design of another kindergarten, where places will also be allocated for the children of military personnel.

In turn, the Minister of Defense said that the military is ready to start construction in Khakassia this year. railway Kyzyl-Kuragino.

Sergei Shoigu said that for this, most likely, a railway brigade would be involved. He paid special attention to the complete staffing of the unit with personnel and engineering equipment.

Deputy Defense Minister General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov explained that all the legislative framework for the construction of the railway has already been prepared, there is a government order, and a meeting was held with the Ministry of Transport and Russian Railways.

"Ten battalions are ready to leave, all have been checked and prepared, including the 5th brigade," Dmitry Bulgakov reported.

The Minister of Defense thanked the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the constructive dialogue.

Starting work, the Minister of Defense recalled that on October 31, the academic year ended in the Armed Forces.

As Sergei Shoigu emphasized, "preliminary results show that the level of field, air and sea training of personnel has grown."

In particular, the intensity increased by 16%. interspecies training, by 14% - the number of bilateral exercises.

AT ground forces over 3,800 tactical exercises were conducted at the company-battalion level.

In the Aerospace Forces, flight crews have exceeded 380,000 hours, and 615 young pilots have been trained.

AT Navy 242 crews of surface ships and submarines worked out more than 560 course tasks.

The surfacing of the crews amounted to 15450 days.

AT Airborne troops made 168640 parachute jumps.

17,500 junior specialists have mastered the skills of operating modern weapons and equipment, which makes it possible to fully use the entire new technology entering the troops.

As for the thematic part of the meeting, five issues were considered.

The first concerned the ship's anti-aircraft missile system"Polyment-Redoubt".

According to the Minister of Defense, "its capabilities make it possible to hit any existing and promising means air attack."

In the course of state tests in the Northern Fleet, more than 10 launches of these missiles were carried out different types goals.

Sergei Shoigu offered to discuss their results and proposals for further development systems.

Then the progress of the implementation of the state defense order for the creation of a space missile system heavy class "Angara".

"From the successful implementation this project the timely build-up of the orbital constellation of dual and military spacecraft directly depends. Therefore, the implementation of this task is under the constant control of the Ministry of Defense," the head of the military department said.

Also, special attention was paid to the issue related to the development of the Il-76MD-90A heavy military transport aircraft and the creation of a modern tanker aircraft on its basis.

As Sergei Shoigu explained, "for this purpose, experimental design work is being carried out, the implementation of which will increase the mass of transported goods and the range of their transportation, increase combat capabilities front-line, special and long-range aviation".

The Minister of Defense announced that state tests prototype military transport aircraft are being completed.

A prototype tanker aircraft will be manufactured in the first quarter of 2019.

In addition, the meeting summed up the results of the "Ocean Shield" exercise, which took place in early September in the Mediterranean Sea.

"Such an event at such a distance from Russian borders in modern history country was held for the first time," Sergei Shoigu said.

During the exercise, issues of preparing and conducting combat operations of an interspecific grouping of forces and troops were worked out.

The ships of the Northern and Baltic fleets made the transition over a distance of more than 4,500 miles.

The ships of the Caspian Flotilla passed through the Volga-Don Canal and the Black Sea Straits from the Caspian Sea.

Naval aviation planes made flights from the northern, Baltic and Crimean airfields to the Khmeimim base, covering more than 5,000 kilometers.

Involved in teaching strategic missile carriers Tu-160, A-50 airborne radar surveillance and guidance systems, as well as Il-78 tanker aircraft of the Aerospace Forces.

A large inter-fleet grouping of the Navy was created in the Mediterranean Sea, capable of autonomously solving a wide range of tasks, taking into account the changing situation.

The exercise was managed by the High Command of the Navy from the control center in St. Petersburg and an auxiliary control point in the Syrian port of Tartus.

As the Minister of Defense emphasized, "during the event, the latest tactical methods and methods of action of naval forces and aviation were tested," adding that now such exercises will be held on a permanent basis.

Another issue on the agenda concerned the readiness of the barracks and housing stock and public utility facilities for operation in the winter season.

Sergei Shoigu noted that by September all boiler houses were ready for the winter, all military camps received passports for readiness for the heating period.

The meeting participants discussed how to provide military units and organizations this winter utilities in full.

The Minister of Defense dwelled separately on such an "important educational project" as the annual Geographic Dictation, which will be held on November 11 for the fourth time.

The military department takes the most active part in it.

According to the Minister of Defense, knowledge of geography in the Armed Forces will be able to test more than 137,000 people.

For this in military units, organizations and institutions of the military department will operate 1025 regional sites.

The main one will be the National Defense Control Center, where all information about the dictation in the Armed Forces will be collected.

As part of the event, it is planned to launch photo exhibitions about those parts of the country where military personnel serve, meetings with geographers, travelers and other interesting people will be held.

We have already spoken about the importance geographical knowledge, but it is equally important to know and native history. Especially now, when more and more often we are faced with attempts to falsify it. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense is considering the issue of holding military-historical dictations in the Armed Forces, which will help preserve the truth about military events significant for the country," the Minister of Defense announced a new important initiative.

Also at the meeting, they discussed the activities of the Ministry of Defense in quartering and equipping.

According to Sergei Shoigu, "since the beginning of the year, 100% of Money allocated for housing subsidies to military personnel. As a result, 5,500 families received permanent housing.

The plan to provide servicemen with service housing has been fully implemented. It was received by 31 thousand 200 people.

The military construction complex put into operation 2308 buildings and structures, which is 72% more than last year.

At the same time, the emphasis, as the Minister of Defense emphasized, was placed on the creation of military infrastructure facilities that affect combat power Armed Forces, primarily nuclear deterrence forces.

Much attention was still paid to the creation of the ERA Military Innovation Technopolis, the first stage of construction of which is nearing completion.

According to the Minister of Defense, it is planned to hold an off-site meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defense there in November.

A mandatory topic of conference calls is the interaction of the military department with the leadership of the regions in deciding social problems military personnel and members of their families, as well as issues related to the development of the Yunarmiya movement.

This time, the head of the Republic of Adygea Murat Kumpilov, the deputy governor of the Voronezh region Vitaly Shabalatov, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region Sergey Morozov were heard.

"We strive to fulfill all social obligations to the residents of the republic, including military personnel. All children of military personnel are provided with kindergartens and schools in a timely manner," Murat Kumpilov reported.

According to him, there are also no problems with the employment of family members of military personnel.

According to Vitaly Shabalatov, all children of military personnel serving in the region are also provided with places in kindergartens and schools.

"In order to better address this issue in 2018, more than 2 million rubles were allocated to equip one of the kindergartens," he said. The deputy head of the region noted that there are also no unresolved issues with employment, and the families of military personnel are provided with all support measures.

Sergei Morozov also said that as of November 1, all children of military personnel were provided with places in kindergartens and schools, and there were no those in need of employment.

Sergei Shoigu expressed the hope that social guarantees to servicemen in these regions will continue to be fully implemented.

Murat Kumpilov, Vitaly Shabalatov and Sergey Morozov also informed the Minister of Defense about the development of the youth movement and the creation of patriotic parks of culture and recreation in the field.

"This year we started a lot of work on sports and health camps. In our country, more than one and a half thousand of them were created in the summer season. We hope that their number will constantly increase," Sergei Shoigu outlined the near future.

In addition, the Minister of Defense instructed the commander of the Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov, to provide assistance to the Vasily Margelov Patriotic Park under construction in Ulyanovsk.

Today, at the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, under the leadership of the head of the military department, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, a regular conference call was held with the leadership of the Armed Forces. military service, which will last until the end of December. In accordance with the decree of the President of Russia, 132,500 people are subject to conscription, including 118,440 to the Armed Forces. Sergei Shoigu instructed the commanders of the military districts and Northern Fleet organize control over the conduct of professional psychological selection and medical examination of conscripts. “It is important to ensure the readiness of all points of collection, reception and dispatch of personnel, as well as the barracks in military units. Particular attention should be paid to security measures and disease prevention,” the Minister of Defense emphasized. Another notable event in the coming days, the head of the military department called the IV All-Russian action“There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland!”, Which will be held from October 15 to December 21 in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Sergei Shoigu recalled that “its goal is to objectively and fully inform young people about military education, its advantages and prospects.” In In this regard, the deputies of the Minister of Defense, the commanders-in-chief of the branches of the Armed Forces, the commanders of the military districts, the Northern Fleet and the branches of the military, the heads of the central bodies of military control were tasked with planning their participation in meetings with youth members, students of the graduating classes of schools and pre-university military educational institutions, and also organize the involvement of subordinates in this work. By decision of the Minister of Defense, the results of the action will be included in weekly reports at conference calls with the leadership of the military department, and the National Defense Control Center and the Main Personnel Directorate will be entrusted with monitoring the progress of its implementation. As for the agenda of the meeting, the Minister of Defense proposed discussing four thematic issues. The first was devoted to improving the serviceability of the Tu-160 and Tu-95MS missile carriers. “In pursuance of the instruction of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, we continue to develop the nuclear triad. In particular, such an important component of it as strategic aviation,” explained Sergei Shoigu. The Minister of Defense informed that in order to extend the service life and increase the efficiency of the use of Tu-160 and Tu-95MS aircraft, Tupolev and cooperation enterprises carry out their maintenance within life cycle, as well as repair and modernization. At the same time, work is underway to reproduce strategic aircraft Tu-160M. At the selector, measures were discussed that would allow maintaining the number of serviceable missile carriers set by the President of Russia. Particular attention was paid to the development work on the creation of the Il-112V light military transport aircraft. which is coming to an end. Eighty percent of such aircraft will be decommissioned by 2030. “The renewal of the military transport aviation fleet must be carried out in strict accordance with the state contract,” Sergei Shoigu emphasized, saying that at present a number of questions remain open regarding the timing of the aircraft and its mass .I reported on how they are resolved CEO aviation complex named after S.V. Ilyushin. Also, the selector discussed issues related to the progress of the implementation of the state contract for the manufacture and supply of spacecraft "Bars-M". .In this regard, the timely implementation of the tasks of manufacturing and upgrading satellites for mapping and remote sensing of the Earth is of particular relevance. Representatives of the Progress Rocket and Space Center were heard about the progress of work to complete the manufacture spacecraft Bars-M. The final issue on the agenda concerned the summing up of the results of the IV Army international games, which ended on August 11. The Minister of Defense emphasized that “our servicemen, having won in 18 out of 28 competitions, again became leaders in overall standings, while the Russian team owns 26 out of 29 records set at the Games.” Next year, the 5th anniversary Army Games will be held. Many tournaments are planned to be held on the territory of other states. “Every year the struggle becomes more intense and exciting, it is more and more difficult to hold the first positions,” Sergey Shoigu summed up. their families, the development of the youth movement. This time, the heads of the Arkhangelsk, Bryansk and Kaliningrad regions took part in the selector. In a conversation with them, the Minister of Defense announced his intention to create Kaliningrad region branch of the Nakhimov School, instructing the commander Baltic Fleet together with the leadership of the region, consider the possibility of dislocating this educational institution. “I ask you to consider the possibility of dislocating a branch of the Nakhimov School. This is the only fleet in our country that does not have the Nakhimov School. Now we need to consider the possibility, to find a worthy, decent place in order to be able to place the Nakhimov School there. I believe that this is one of the most important points where there should be educational institution our fleet and the Ministry of Defense.” In turn, the governors of the Bryansk and Arkhangelsk regions announced their intention to create Patriot regional parks.

30 June. Today, at the National Center for Defense Management of the country, under the leadership of the head of the military department, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, a regular conference call was held with the leadership of the Armed Forces.

The Minister of Defense began his work with an analysis of the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic.

He noted that during last month Syrian government troops and detachments militia with the support of the Russian Aerospace Forces, they are developing success in the north-east of the province of Aleppo, in the Palmyra region and in southern Syria. They are actively moving along the Syrian-Jordanian border and the border with Iraq.

In June alone, 69 settlements and 12,177 square kilometers of territory.

The cessation of hostilities continues to be maintained.

To date, 228 armed opposition groups have joined the regime.

In June, agreements on joining reconciliation were signed with representatives of 329 localities, total which is 1864.

After the signing of the Memorandum on the establishment of de-escalation zones in the Syrian Arab Republic, the number of violations of the cessation of hostilities has decreased significantly.

At the same time, the Minister of Defense drew attention to the fact that “at the same time, the provocations of the forces of the US-led coalition contribute to the expansion of activities terrorist organizations in Syria."

“After the US aircraft shot down a Syrian plane in the Rusafa area? in the south of the province of Raqqa, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has ceased contacts with the American side within the framework of the Memorandum on preventing incidents and ensuring the safety of aviation flights, ”Sergey Shoigu emphasized and said that at present the coalition’s actions are limited to strictly agreed zones in the At-Tanf area in southern Syria and east of the Euphrates River.

“We note that our American colleagues operate within these zones. So far, no violations have been recorded,” the head of the Russian military department stated.

“In order to significantly reduce military activity and violence in the Syrian Arab Republic, preparations are underway for the 5th international meeting on Syria in Astana, which will be held on July 4-5. At present, together with Iran and Turkey, we are completing the development of documents defining the boundaries of de-escalation zones, the procedure for their control and functioning,” the Minister of Defense said, adding that during the talks in Astana it is also planned to discuss the creation of the Syrian National Reconciliation Committee.

The head of the military department stressed that the Syrian experience is being generalized and implemented as part of the training of military command and control bodies and troops.

To this end, large-scale meetings were held in February with the leadership of the Armed Forces at the operational-strategic level.

“The next step, as noted by Sergei Shoigu, will be an operational gathering with the involvement of commanders of formations and commanders of formations, scheduled for July.”

During it, the training grounds will demonstrate the main approaches to training tactical groups, formations and subunits, including using modern means training and training facilities.

In addition, it is planned to conduct a series of exercises that will show various options and methods of action of the troops.