- Please find enclosed next issue of the Bulletin: Financial Aspects of Russian Military Reform by Robert Śmigielski.

The economic crisis has proved no reason for the Russian authorities to abandon their policy of rising expenditure on the armed forces. Over the coming years, priorities will include a thorough re-arming and modernisation of the army and the navy, in addition to raising servicemen’s pay. The high spending does not, however, have to translate into qualitative development, given the Russian armaments industry’s technological backwardness and poor training of the draftees.

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