22 Dec 2010, 00:08

As result of cooperation between the 102nd Russian military base and Armenia the Joint Air Defence Command Post (JADCP) became operational, the Armenian Ministry of Defence reported. Defence Minister Seyran Ohanian attended the function.

21 Dec 2010, 23:02

The establishment of cooperation between Russia/CSTO and NATO will help remove tension generated in the ongoing process of NATO-infrastructure nearing the borders of the CSTO zone of responsibility, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), Mr Bordyuzha said.

21 Dec 2010, 08:28

A decision was made to invest in the expansion project of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, reported by KazMunaiGaz. An increase decided to raise the nominal capacity of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline system to 67 million tons a year.

21 Dec 2010, 07:00

In the first four months of 2011 Hungary is to launch a public tender to sell an unspecified number of MiG-29 aircraft supplied by the Russians in 1993, the Magyar Nemzet daily reported citing MoD sources.

21 Dec 2010, 19:05

Hungary not yet asked for permission to resell Russian/Soviet made MiG-29s in months - at least not through the relevant Russian embassy officials, a Moscow source told defsec.info. The source did not exclude the possibility that Budapest turned directly to the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (Федеральная служба по военно-техническому сотрудничеству - FSMTC) for permission.

21 Dec 2010, 07:14

Bilateral relations and prospects for defence cooperation were discussed at a meeting of Bulgarian Defence Minister Anyu Angelov and Ambassador of Japan Makoto Ito, banker.bg reported.

20 Dec 2010, 20:41

Seven members of the 25-strong group who escaped on 22 Aug 2010 from a Dushanbe detention center have been rearrested in Afghanistan. Three of them have Afghanistani passports, Nozir Buriyev, press officer of the Tajikistani State Security Committee (GKNB) told media in Dushanbe.