Defence industry

• 25 September, 09:00 Russia puts more social-oriented budget forward Spending on state-backed industries may surpass defence spending for the first time since 2014
• 04 June, 09:00 Nikolay Kolesov purchases KETZ from Rostec for nearly 600m rubles Rostec sold 42,6% of shares of Kazan Electrotechnical Plant due to the impossibility of getting control in this enterprise
• 14 February, 09:00 UAC increases its capital to 390bn rub for re-equipment of aviation industry Kazan Aircraft Production Association is going to join Rostec, which means Chemezov will control almost half of the defence industry of the Republic of Tatarstan

• 11 September, 09:00 Rostec orders machine tools from Tatarstan defence plants for 6bn The Russian machine tool manufacturer STAN has opened a window to Tatarstan signing new contracts for 2020
• 10 April, 09:00 ‘To stop a factory now is to be sent to the scaffold later’: defence factories focusing on defence Defence enterprises during the non-working days: Kazan Optical-Mechanical Plant is on holiday until 10 May, others are working part-time going by shuttles
• 04 February, 09:00 ‘If you drank water, you should throw the bottle away somewhere’: reverse vending machines to be tested in Kazan Sergey Chemezov and Rustam Minnikhanov have launched a pilot separate waste collection project

• 20 January, 09:00 Renat Mistakhov: “It was said about the third pair of Gepard-class frigates for Vietnam, but there's nothing so far” Tatarstan shipbuilders have suspended negotiations with ASEAN navy, aiming for a deep modernization of the frigate
• 11 November, 09:00 Larry Vickers: “Kalashnikov's scale likely will never be seen again” Retired American special forces veteran is fascinated by the invention of the Soviet weapon designer
• 18 June, 09:00 Zelenodolsk ‘Ingushetia’ with ‘Chinese heart’ Zelenodolsk shipbuilders will continue a series of Buyans on Chinese diesel engines, which replaced the German engines

• 18 November, 09:00 Kazan multipurpose helicopter Mi-38 flies to be premiered in Emirates The future of Kazan Helicopters depends on the machine’s success, but it won’t have an easy victory, independent experts warn
• 16 July, 09:00 “Turkey chose S-400 not for political reasons but due to outstanding combat capabilities” Russia has supplied the first batches of export version of Triumph anti-aircraft weapon system to Turkey
• 07 June, 09:00 Ankara finds itself at crossroads between Moscow and Washington