Serve my Homeland 09.12.2012 (2012)

Our report: On December 1, military men of the youngest kind of Russian troops celebrated their professional holiday.

Exactly one year ago on this day the President signed a decree on the unification of the Space Forces and the Air Force of Russia in the Air Defense Force - IN TO. And this is not just a change of name, but also an increase in the status, and therefore, of the capabilities of this strategic union.

A report from the Main Test Space Center of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation named after G. Titov on the work and control of the GLONASS orbital group, chief of the center, Major-General Andrei Ilyin, Deputy Chief of Staff Alexander Kozhinov, Head of the Ballistic Directorate Sergei Vaskov, Chief of the CP Sergey Berezhnoy, Colonel Alexei Shustov, Commander of the on-duty forces.

Our report: On December 8, 2012 the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation celebrates its 180th anniversary.

The academy was opened 20 years after the end of the war of 1812 by the decree of Emperor Nicholas I and was intended "for the formation of officers for the service of the General Staff and the greater dissemination of military knowledge."

And whatever the power in the country, the main purpose of the academy remained the same: the training of command staff, military experts of the highest class.

Fragments of the interview about the classes at the academy: the head of Andrei Tretiak, the deputy head of scientific work Yuri Tuchkov, the head of the special department Gennady Tupik, listeners Nikolai Tereshchenko, Juhani Pihlayama.

The main event of the year for the Russian army can be considered the appointment of the new Minister of Defense SK Shoigu.

A visiting member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, military expert Ruslan Pukhov, talk about the future of the army.