Mysterious business

The President demanded that the government trade not only in weapons, but also in spare parts and assemblies. It is for this purpose that a decree on military-technical cooperation was signed in January. “This document makes changes to the current procedure for the export of military products, increasing the responsibility of the state intermediary in the military-technical cooperation system,” Putin said at a meeting of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation. And also, according to the new rules of the game, Rosoboronexport becomes a monopolist, all operations go through a state intermediary, whose share is a state secret.