Bloomberg: the Pentagon has difficulties with the timing of commissioning of the latest submarines for $ 132 billion. The Pentagon is not sure that strategic nuclear submarines will be built on time — in 2031, the agency writes
Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine
US Navy and Pentagon officials did not receive the necessary information to “confidently determine” that new strategic nuclear submarines under the Columbia program for $132 billion will be built on time in 2031, Bloomberg writes, citing unpublished results of a congressional audit dated September last year.
It is planned that 12 new Columbia-class submarines will replace the current fleet of 14 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. The agency points out that the fleet is considered by Washington as a key component of the nuclear deterrence strategy, complementing intercontinental ballistic missiles and air-based weapons in the nuclear triad.
The first submarine will cost $15 billion (for 2022), according to the Congressional Budget Office; this is one of the most expensive US weapons systems in history, Bloomberg emphasizes.
In 2018, the U.S. Accounting Chamber criticized the Pentagon about the implementation of the Columbia-class submarine project. They stated that the technologies used in their creation may not meet the “standards of technological progress”, as they have not passed a sufficient number of tests and are probably actually poorly developed.
In response, the US Department of Defense said that the program is able to provide the US Navy with “capacity at an affordable price” and “in a time that meets the requirements of strategic deterrence”.
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Rossia was not invited to the Munich Security Conference because of the “violation of law” In Munich, they decided not to invite “those who have corrected international law”. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned earlier that in any case they would not have sent a delegation because of the loss of interest and loss of inclusivity in the organization
Christoph Heusgen
Russian government officials are not invited to the Munich Security Conference this year, its chairman Christoph Heusgen said in an interview with Reuters. This year the conference will be held on February 17–19.
“We don’t want to give a platform for speeches to those who trample on international law,” he explained.
Reuters notes that the conference is called “Davos for Defense”, by analogy with the forum in Davos, Switzerland, where annual economic forums are held.
Last year, Russia did not send its representatives to the Munich Conference, the Foreign Ministry explained this for various reasons. The Ministry also considered that the conference in recent years has become a “transatlantic forum, losing inclusiveness, objectivity”. Even if Russia receives an invitation to a meeting in 2023, Moscow will not send a delegation, the ministry warned at the end of last year, “because of the “loss of interest”.
In the middle of last year, Heusgen called Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev a clown. He said that the conference in Munich had degraded, and now they are afraid to invite representatives of Russia so as not to listen to the truth.
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BRussian Russian House found Lavrov’s words insulting about the US’ desire to “solve ” the Russian question” Lavrov compared the US attempts to create a coalition opposing Russia with Hitler’s actions, and also stated the desire to “solve ” the Russian question.” The White House considered these words absurd and offensive
John Kirby
Washington considers offensive the statement of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov, in which he compared the actions of the United States with the actions of Adolf Hitler, said the coordinator for strategic communications in the National Security Council of the White House John Kirby, reports Reuters.
Earlier, the Russian minister said that the US attempts to create a coalition to confront Russia with the actions of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon, and also expressed the opinion that Washington is striving for a “final solution” to the Russian question.
“It’s almost so absurd that it’s not worth reacting to, except for the really offensive manner in which he tried to present us in terms of Hitler and the Holocaust,” he said.
Lavrov compared Washington’s actions with those of Hitler and Napoleon, summing up the work of the Foreign Ministry over the past year. According to him, the statements of Western politicians that “Russia must suffer a strategic defeat” in Ukraine are confirmation of the West’s desire to “solve the Russian question”.
In Europe and the United States, they talked about the need for a “strategic defeat of Russia” in the conflict in Ukraine. In particular, in early January, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich said that it meets the strategic interests of Riga.
According to Rinkevich, the “defeat” of Russia should “restore world order and trust in a multi-vector approach to international relations”.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the “defeat of Russia” a condition for the end of the conflict in Ukraine. This is how he explained the supply of weapons to Kiev by Western countries. Moscow has repeatedly criticized military assistance to Ukraine and said that it only delays the conflict, but will not change the outcome of the special operation.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, criticized both of these statements. She considered Rinkevich’s words to be stupidity and short-sightedness, and called Scholz’s statement a sign of his “congenital deformity”.
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EBritish Deputy Prime Minister Johnson explained why the idea to negotiate with Putin “did not take off” The West came to the conclusion that Putin could not be trusted, and therefore the logical conclusion was maximum support for Ukraine, since there is no alternative to its success, Johnson said. Putin said that Western leaders deceived Russia
Boris Johnson
Distrust of Russian President Vladimir Putin was the reason for the termination of any discussion about possible peace talks, peace plans and agreements with him, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an interview with “European Truth”.
“After all, you cannot agree on anything with Putin simply because he is so obviously not to be trusted”…”. Therefore, the idea of an agreement with him “did not take off”. And every time everyone was forced to come back to a single logical conclusion that we should support Ukraine with everything we can,” he explained.
Before the introduction of Russian troops into Ukraine, the authorities of some Western countries were skeptical about Kiev’s ability to resist, but over time they were convinced of the opposite, Johnson continued. Great Britain, he pointed out, immediately decided to seek the military defeat of Russia, but Germany and France initially advocated finding a compromise and starting negotiations.
According to the former Prime Minister of the kingdom, some Western leaders considered it excessive to say that Putin would lose and called for finding other words for this. Johnson stressed that he had convinced them of his position and urged them to achieve the withdrawal of Russian troops to positions by February 24 as a minimum goal. Western leaders were persuaded by the argument that “fundamentally there is no alternative to the military success of Ukraine,” he explained.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz repeatedly contacted Putin before the Russian troops entered Ukraine, offering to abandon such a scenario, for this purpose they also visited Moscow in early 2022. Macron said that he talked to Putin for a hundred hours in the first six months of last year and lost count.
The UK has become the first Western country to announce its intention to supply Ukraine with Western-style tanks on a tracked track. Acting British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised that London would use its influence in NATO and the G7 to accelerate military supplies to Kiev from other countries, seeking “[Ukraine’s] entry into future peace talks from a position of military, economic and diplomatic strength”.
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Putin also expressed distrust of Western leaders. A year ago, before the announcement of the special operation, he said that Moscow was “thrown and deceived” by promising not to expand NATO to the east. “As it turned out now, we were simply led by the nose, deceived. This is not the first time this has happened to us and happens,” he noted in January of this year.
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Andlon Musk launched a poll on Twitter whether the Davos forum should “control the world” The majority at the time of publication voted against the “world control” of the World Economic Forum, but over a tenth of respondents still agreed with this opinion
Elon Musk
American businessman, Twitter owner Elon Musk launched a survey on the social network, the topic of which was the role of the World Economic Forum in Davos in “controlling the world”.
“The World Economic Forum should control the world,” the publication says. Two possible answers are attached below: you can agree with this opinion or not.
At 22:54 Moscow time, more than 1.1 million people voted. The majority did not support this thesis (86.3%), but more than a tenth of those who voted agreed with the opinion that the Davos forum should “control the world”.
Musk has repeatedly launched surveys on current topics. So, in early October, he described the likely outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, suggesting that Crimea would remain part of Russia, and referendums would be held again in the regions that joined at the end of September under the supervision of the UN.
Also, according to Musk, a peace agreement may include a condition for maintaining the neutral status of Ukraine and an agreement on the water supply of Crimea. He attached a survey on agreement or disagreement with these words to the publication.
Slightly more than 40% of those who voted agreed with Musk’s vision of the situation. However, the majority (59.1%) did not support this opinion.
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This publication caused criticism from Twitter users, the Ukrainian authorities, and also provoked a drop in shares owned by the businessman Tesla.
The Davos Forum began on January 16 and will last until January 20. Last year, the WEF was held in May, there were no Russians there either— the organization froze relations with Russia in March.
In 2020, the delegation from Russia became the third among all participating countries in terms of the number of billionaires in Davos.
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MThe US Justice Department accused a Russian citizen of involvement in the crypto exchange and money laundering In the United States arrested a Russian Anatoly Legodimov, who uses the nicknames Tolik and Gandalf. The investigation believes that the world’s largest darknet drug market Hydra once laundered money through its Bitzlato crypto exchange
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One of the founders of the Bitzlato crypto exchange, 40-year-old Russian citizen Anatoly Legodimov, also known by the nicknames Tolika Gandalf, was arrested in Miami on charges of money laundering, according to the website of the US Department of Justice. According to the agency, the Hong Kong-registered Bitzlato operated in the United States without the necessary license and processed illegal transactions worth more than $700 million.
Gandalf is an archetypal wise wizard, one of the central characters of John Tolkien’s novel The Lord of the Rings
“Bitzlato interacted with criminals and sold them cryptocurrency without question, as a result of which she received deposits of hundreds of millions of dollars. The defendant [Legodimov] is now paying the price for the pernicious role that his company played in the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” said the prosecutor of the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace.
The assistant Prosecutor General during the hearing noted that Legodimov took part in the management of the cryptocurrency exchange, which “allowed criminals to profit from their offenses, including extortionate programs and drug trafficking.” “Today, the Ministry of Justice has dealt a serious blow to the ecosystem of cryptocrime,” he stressed.
The case file also says that Bitzlato’s largest counterparty in transactions with cryptocurrency was Hydra Market, the world’s largest market for drugs, forged documents, databases with data leaks and other illegal goods before its closure. According to the investigation, Legodimov knew perfectly well that criminals were using the exchange for their own purposes, but did not take any measures.
“Simultaneously with the arrest announced today, the French authorities, in cooperation with Europol and partners in Spain, Portugal and Cyprus, dismantled Bitzlato’s digital infrastructure and took enforcement measures,” the Ministry of Justice added.
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Hydra is a trading platform in the darknet, which worked only for Russian-speaking countries. It was considered the largest marketplace of the darknet: in 2021, it accounted for 80% of the total global revenue of darknet markets, according to the Chainalysis report. Access to it via the Tor network was opened in 2015.
On Hydra, there was a trade in drugs, forged documents, databases with data leaks and other illegal goods. In the FSB reports on the liquidation of large drug laboratories, it was repeatedly noted that their products were sold on Hydra.
The United States imposed sanctions against the site on April 5, 2022. On the same day, the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime and the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany confiscated Hydra servers and confiscated bitcoins worth the equivalent of $23 million. The site has been closed since then.
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Prigozhin: the ban on phones and the requirement to shave for soldiers is archaic from the 60s “War is a time of active and brave, not smooth—shaven with phones put into storage,” says the founder of Wagner’s PMCs
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Yevgeny Prigozhin criticized the words of a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev, who, in a conversation with RBC, called shaving for soldiers “an elementary requirement of military discipline” and explained the ban on mobile phones as a threat to security. According to the founder of PMCs Wagner, such requirements are outdated for more than half a century. His comment was published by the press service.
“80% of the time at the front, soldiers wash from a bottle, and shaving is generally a great luxury. A considerable part of both Muslims and Orthodox Christians wear a beard according to religious customs. The beard on the front is a symbol, it’s a tradition, Prigozhin said.
In the case of the ban on mobile technology, Prigozhin notes, the requirements are untenable due to the fact that smartphones and tablets have become vital in the conditions of modern military operations. “Tablets and smartphones are extremely necessary for the conduct of modern warfare. There are accurate geodata, including heights and other secrets of the terrain. Thanks to smartphones and tablets, junior commanders and fighters of certain specialties (and there are from 30 to 50% of all military personnel) know the general situation and can transmit the data necessary in battle,” he claims.
Prigozhin stressed that such a technique must be used competently, since some military use it “for chatting on “Whatsapp”, “Viber” and other enemy means of transmitting information”.
“The requirements that Lieutenant-General Sobolev spoke about are the archaic of the 60s, the lack of modern military erudition. This is one of the serious reasons why the quality of combat operations suffers… The war is the time of the active and brave, and not the smooth-shaven ones with phones put into storage,” stated the founder of the PMCs.
Military commanders and some telegram channels reported that the military leadership began to insist on a complete ban on phones and beards from soldiers, but this information was refuted by the acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin and the battalion commander “Pyatnashka” Ahra Avidzba. Lieutenant General Viktor Sobolev, however, called such requirements reasonable. “I don’t think that with any of the most intense combat activity there aren’t 15–20 minutes to get your appearance in order. Peaceful people look at a soldier, he should be a model. If he goes unshaven and unshaven, then it does not paint him either as a man or as a soldier,” Sobolev said.
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PPolish Prime Minister: there is fatigue among Western countries from the conflict in Ukraine A few months ago, the discussion about Ukraine was conducted at a different emotional level and at a different level of engagement, the Polish Prime Minister stressed
Mateusz Morawiecki
Among Western countries, there is fatigue from the conflict in Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with Polish television.
“Today it is very clearly visible, and I want to warn world leaders against such sentiments that Russia is patient.”;>, and the West is a little tired,” he said (quoted by TASS).
According to Moravetsky, a few months ago, conversations about Ukraine were conducted on a different emotional level and at a different level of engagement. At the same time, he added that world leaders “see and appreciate” Poland’s role in helping Ukraine.
In August 2022, the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Alexey Reznikov, said that the most dangerous thing for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia is the fatigue syndrome of the international community.
According to him, Kiev should “explain, ask people not to succumb to this fatigue.”
In June last year, President Vladimir Zelensky said that some Western states were tired of the economic consequences of sanctions against Russia.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba claimed in August that some Western countries are waiting for Ukraine to surrender and “the problem will disappear by itself”.
The adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, said that some Western politicians offered Kiev to cede part of the territories to Moscow so that the military operation would end.
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Tolishas: the idea of banning civil service without serving in the army needs careful study The possibility of an indefinite ban on civil service for those who did not serve in the army without legal grounds was already in Russian legislation before, but the Constitutional Court then recognized it as violating the rights of citizens
The idea of a lifetime ban on civil service for all Russians who have not served on conscription was declared unconstitutional back in 2014, the head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and state Construction Andrei Klishas recalled in his telegram channel. According to him, the new initiative, announced by the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, needs to be carefully worked out with this in mind.
Klishas noted that even now a ten-year ban on civil service is in effect for those citizens who have not completed military service without legal grounds. The possibility of restricting voting rights for citizens, depending on military status, is not provided at all.
“On the unconstitutionality of the normative consolidation of an indefinite ban on entering the civil service for the corresponding the categories of citizens were indicated by the Constitutional Court in the resolution of October 30, 2014 26-p. In turn, the possibility of restricting the electoral rights of citizens, depending on the fact of their military service services are not provided for by domestic regulatory regulation… I believe that the initiative aimed at establishingthe prohibition on admission to public service and filling public positions, as well as on participation in elections for citizens who have not served in the Armed Forces, needs careful study. It is not yet clear how the proposed regulation will comply with the current constitutional principles and the positions of the Constitutional Court on preventing excessive restrictions on the rights of citizens,” the senator stated.
The law prohibiting civil service for those who have evaded the army was adopted back in 2013. Initially, the ban was indefinite and valid for life. In addition, the law was retroactive; civil servants who did not serve in the army without legal grounds had to lose their posts.
However, soon the Chechen Parliament appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to check this rule. The Chechen deputies considered that such a restriction “violates the principle of equality with respect to the exercise by citizens of the right to freely dispose of their abilities to work, the choice of occupation and profession, cancels and diminishes human rights and freedoms andcitizen». The court, having considered the case, considered that in itself the restriction on admission to the civil service for such citizens does not contradict the Constitution. “The access of such persons to the state civil service may not only detract from the prestige of the military service itself, but also reduce the authority of the state civil service,” the decree said.
However, the Constitutional Court saw the violation in the indefinite nature of this ban, since in this case the evaders were in a worse position compared to those who were convicted of committing crimes, for them the restriction on civil service varies from six months in accordance with the Administrative Code to 20 years when committing a criminal offense.
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“Thus, it is assumed that persons who have committed crimes, that is, acts that have the greatest degree of public danger among all types of offenses, after the expiration of the term of repayment of a criminal record or after the removal of a criminal record, have no obstacles to filling positions of the state civil service and, accordingly, to exercise these constitutional rights, unlike citizens recognized inin accordance with the conclusion of the draft commission, those who did not pass military conscription without legal grounds and, as a result, were indefinitely deprived of the right to fill positions of the state civil service,” the court stated.
As a result, the law was amended and the term of the ban on civil service for draft dodgers was limited to ten years.
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MID: thanks to the joint grouping of troops in Belarus, a “barrier to NATO forces” has been created In Belarus since October, a joint grouping of troops with Russia has been deployed, plans have been announced to deploy up to 9 thousand Russian military in the country. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that a reliable “barrier to NATO forces” has been created in the republic
Russia and Belarus are successfully cooperating within the framework of the Union State in a wide range of areas, and thanks to the joint grouping of troops deployed in Belarus, a barrier was created to the collective forces of NATO, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the eve of the visit of its head to Minsk.
The message emphasizes that Russia and Belarus are the closest allies and strategic partners.
“Thanks to the joint regional grouping of troops deployed in Belarus, the western borders of the Union State and the CSTO are reliably protected, a barrier has been created to the collective forces of NATO, whose military potential in neighboring countries is increasing,” the message says.
A joint grouping of troops with Russia has been deployed in Belarus since October 2022. The Ministry of Defense of the Republic announced plans to deploy up to 9 thousand Russian military in the country. Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin explained that the grouping of troops performs “purely defensive tasks”.
In January, the joint training center in Belarus, where military specialists are trained, began a sudden check of combat readiness. Later, the country’s authorities announced joint exercises with the Russian Air Force, which started on January 16 and will end on February 1.
As part of the military operation in Ukraine, Belarus provides its territory and military infrastructure to the Russian military, but does not directly enter into the conflict. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko explained this position as follows: “…We participate there. We don’t hide it. But we don’t kill anyone. We don’t send our military anywhere. We do not violate our obligations. He called Minsk’s goal to prevent the spread of the armed conflict to Belarus.
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