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Arms Trade Database for October-December 2002
| Supplier |
Recipient |
Date |
Description of Event |
Value |
Notes |
| Information for previous period |
| Russia |
India |
2002 |
Instrument Building Design Bureau signed contract for delivery to 28 upgraded Tunguska-M1 anti-aircraft artillery systems to India[1]. |
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| Russia |
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January-September 2002 |
IAIA receipts stood at 12 bln rubles (about $390 mln) in first 9 months of 2002[2]. |
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| Russia |
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2002 |
Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov said 14 warships returned to service with the Pacific Fleet in 2002 after repairs[3]. |
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| Russia |
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January-November 2002 |
JSC Degtyaryov Plant in Kovrov, Vladimir region, posted untaxed profits for 11 months of 2002 at 536.9 mln rubles (about $17 mln)[4]. |
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Government defense order constituted 1.3% of overall production. The plant manufactures missile systems and small arms[5]. |
| October |
| Russia |
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Early October 2002 |
IST Group sold its 18.85% stake in JSC Shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf to RINACO company of MDM Group[6]. |
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Severnaya Verf currently builds two destroyers for China and a series of frigates for the Russian Navy. |
| Russia |
India |
Early October 2002 |
Rosoboronexport signed a contract with Stankoimport trading company on the delivery of production equipment to India for the manufacture of Su-30MKI multirole fighters under license[7]. |
Over $300 mln[8] |
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| Russia |
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3.10.2002 |
Rosoboronexport and JSC Kamaz signed a framework agreement on cooperation[9]. |
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The agreement provides for regular information exchanges, coordination of pre-contact efforts, joint participation in international exhibitions of military, civilian and dual-purpose goods. |
| Russia |
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3.10.2002 |
Completion of incorporation of Avitek[10]. |
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Avitek was incorporated after being included in the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern. 74.5% in Avitek will belong to the Concern, the rest to the federal government[11]. Avitek manufactures guided anti-aircraft missiles, aircraft armaments and subsystems. |
| Russia |
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4.10.2002 |
The Russian Federation Committee for Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign States (CMTC) decided to allow holdings emerging in the Russian defense industry under its restructuring plan to conduct independent foreign economic operations[12]. |
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| Russia |
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7.10.2002 |
Baltiysky Zavod shipyard Board of Directors decided against cooperation with Shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf[13]. |
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| Russia |
Collective Security Treaty countries |
7.10.2002 |
Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed documents regulating the operations of the international regional organization formed on the basis of the Collective Security Treaty[14]. |
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| Ukraine |
Russia |
9.10.2002 |
Ukrainian Cabinet issued a decree on the transfer of certain components of RS-18 (SS-19) strategic missiles decommissioned in Ukraine to Russia[15]. |
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The components will be delivered in 2002-2003[16]. |
| Ukraine |
Armenia |
10.10.2002 |
During the visit of Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to Armenia the Defense Ministries of the two countries signed a military cooperation agreement[17]. |
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| Ukraine |
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14.10.2002 |
Ukraine started the disposal of 30 Tu-22 bombers and 230 Kh-22 (AS-4) cruise missiles in keeping with the START Treaty.[18] |
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The disposal is financed by the United States and conducted at the Ukrainian Aviation Transport Company[19]. |
| Russia |
World market |
14.10.2002 |
CMTC issued three-year licenses for the independent export of military-use spares and services to Sukhoi Aircraft Military and Industrial Complex, MMPP Salyut, Pribor Federal Scientific and Production Center, Rubin Naval Design Bureau[20]. |
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The corresponding presidential decree was signed on 16.09.2002. |
| Ukraine |
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16.10.2002 |
Valery Kazakov was appointed state secretary for the defense industry and engineering of the Ukrainian Industrial Policy Ministry by presidential decree[21]. |
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| Russia, Rosoboronexport |
Jordan |
17.10.2002 |
Rosoboronexport signed a contract for the delivery to Jordan of PSS silenced pistols and VSS silenced sniping rifles[22]. |
$100,000[23] |
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| Russia |
China |
21.10.2002 |
FSUE Admiralty Shipyards laid down two Project 636 diesel submarines for the Chinese Navy[24]. |
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Under the 3.05.2002 Rosoboronexport contract for $1.5 bln for the delivery of 8 Project 636 diesel submarines to China. Five subs will be built at the Admiralty Shipyards (St. Petersburg), two at Sevmash (Severodvinsk) and one at Krasnoye Sormovo (Nizhny Novgorod). |
| Russia, Instrument Building Design Bureau |
World market |
October 2002 |
The publication of reports that the export deliveries of the Instrument Building Design Bureau in 2002 exceeded $400 mln[25]. |
$400 mln |
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| Russia |
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October 2002 |
JSC Kazan Helicopters started certification tests of the Ansat light helicopter for a type certificate of the Aviation Register of the Interstate Aviation Committee[26]. |
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With the certificate the plant can launch the serial production of the helicopter. Kazan Helicopters already have contracts for 12 Ansat helicopters, one of them for export[27]. |
| Russia |
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October 2002 |
The Russian government issued a decree on the formation of Voentelecom[28]. |
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The task of Voentelecom is to maintain and develop communication systems of the Russian Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and agencies. It will be subordinate to the Defense Ministry[29]. |
| Russia |
Indonesia |
October 2002 |
The delivery of 12 BTR-80 APCs and their spares made at Arzamas Machine-Building Plant (Nizhny Novgorod region) to Indonesia[30]. |
$6.5 mln[31] |
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| Russia |
India |
October 2002 |
The publication of reports that given changes in the requirements of the Indian side to the MTA (Multifunctional Transport Aircraft) program the beginning of deliveries of the aircraft to customers will be postponed from 2005 to 2007[32]. |
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India changed the requirements to the basing conditions of the aircraft (airfields at the altitude of 3,300 meters), which requires the replacement of PS-9 engines (thrust of 9 tonnes) with PS-12 (12 tonnes). India needs no less than 35-50 aircraft of the MTA class[33]. |
| Russia |
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October 2002 |
Russian Defense Ministry ordered from Kurganmashzavod the delivery of spares for AIFVs and repairs of a batch of vehicles in 2003[34]. |
200 mln rubles (about $6.5 mln)[35] |
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| Russia |
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October 2002 |
Bankruptcy procedures were launched at FSUE Omsktransmash under a ruling of the Omsk region Arbitration Court[36]. |
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The payables of the facility making T-80U tanks total almost 1 billion rubles (about $32 mln)[37]. |
| Russia |
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October 2002 |
Gennady Kozlov was appointed general director of the Russian Agency of Control Systems[38]. |
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| Russia |
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October 2002 |
Saturn NPO signed a contract with the Kamov Company on the delivery at the end of 2002 of two RD-600V engines for the second model of the Ka-60 (Kasatka) multipurpose helicopter under construction at Lukhovitsy aviation production and test complex[39]. |
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| Russia |
India |
October 2002 |
Rostvertol started implementing a contract on the overhaul and partial upgrading of 4 Mi-35 (Hind E/F) helicopters and one Mi-26 (Halo) transport helicopter of the Indian Air Force[40]. |
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| Russia |
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January-October 2002 |
Total production of military goods at Ural Optical & Mechanical Plant (Yekaterinburg) soared 28% in January-October 2002 year-on-year[41]. |
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| November |
| Armenia |
Russia |
05.11.2002 |
Armenia signed documents on the transfer to the Russian government of shares in 4 Armenian defense industry facilities as the re-payment of government debts[42]. |
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The facilities acquired by Russia (Mars CJSC, the Yerevan Materials Research Institute, the Yerevan Computer Technology Research Institute and the Yerevan Research Institute for Automatic Control Systems) will be subordinate to the Russian Agency of Control Systems[43]. |
| Russia |
World market |
12.11.2002 |
Rosoboronexport General Director Andrei Belyaninov stated that since the beginning of 2002 his company had performed contract operations for $3.4 billion[44]. |
$3.4 bln |
The Rosoboronexport target figure for contract operations in 2002 stood at $3.5 billion[45]. |
| Russia |
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12.11.2002 |
The Board of Aircraft-Building Plant Sokol (Nizhny Novgorod) appointed technical director Mikhail Shibayev its acting CEO because the former CEO Vasili Pankov had been appointed vice president of the Kaskol Group[46]. |
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Kaskol Group is one of the major shareholders of the Sokol Plant. |
| Russia |
China |
15.11.2002 |
Second destroyer of Project 956EM was laid down at JSC Shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf. It is built under the 03.01.2002 contract with China for the delivery of two destroyers[47]. |
Total contract sum is $1.4 bln[48] |
The first destroyer was laid down in June 2002[49]. |
| Russia, Europe |
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18.11.2002 |
Kaskol Group and EADS aerospace concern signed a protocol on the formation of an engineering center in Russia to develop units and components for Airbus aircraft fuselages[50]. |
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| Russia |
Uruguay |
25.11.2002 |
Completion of delivery of 200 Uralaz trucks and four Golaz and Liaz buses to the Defense Ministry of Uruguay under an April 2002 contract with Rosoboronexport[51]. |
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| Russia |
Algeria |
29.11.2002 |
The launch of the Russian Mozhayets satellite and the Algerian AlSat-1satellite with the Kosmos-3M light LV from Plesetsk space center[52]. |
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The Algerian satellite was launched under a contract between Rosoboronexport and the British SSTL[53]. |
| Russia |
India |
November 2002 |
The beginning of state trials of the Project 11356 Trishul frigate built for the Indian Navy[54]. |
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Trishul was laid down in September 1999 and launched in November 2000. It is the second of three frigates built at Baltiysky Zavod shipyard for the Indian Navy under a 1997 contract. |
| Russia |
Mexico |
November 2002 |
Reports in the Russian media that Rosoboronexport signed two contracts for the delivery of 5 Igla MANPADs and 2 Mi-171V (Hip H) military transport helicopters to Mexico[55]. |
Estimated sum of the contracts – up to $15 mln[56]. |
The MANPADs will be used for security purposes at strategic oil extracting sites in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Russia |
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November 2002 |
The Russian Property Ministry, the government of Tatarstan and the leadership of Aerospace Equipment Corporation signed an agreement on the transfer of 51% of shares in Radiopribor plant in Kazan to the Corporation[57]. |
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Presently the Tatarstan Ministry of Land and Property Relations owns 100% in the plant. The transfer is part of the effort of the federal government to reorganize Radiopribor and merge it with the Aerospace Equipment Corporation. The legal documentation of the stake transfer was expected to be completed by the end of 2002[58]. |
| Russia |
Libya |
November 2002 |
Representatives of Libyan Air Defense and Aviastar JV signed a letter of intent under which the Russian side would service two Libyan An-124 transport planes purchased from Ukraine[59]. |
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The letter also states that the Libyan side would acquire up to five Tu-204-100 aircraft assembled at Aviastar[60]. |
| Russia, Rosoboronexport |
Algeria |
November 2002 |
Media reports that Rosoboronexport signed a contract for the delivery of 42 Mi-17 (Hip H) helicopters to Algeria[61]. |
$200 mln[62] |
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| December |
| Russia |
Unknown |
Early December 2002 |
It is reported that OJSC Radiopribor (Vladivostok) is beginning to implement an export contract[63]. |
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Radiopribor manufactures components for the Moskit (SS-N-22 Sunburn) supersonic ship-to-ship missile made at Progress plant (Arsenyev)[64]. |
| Russia |
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Early December 2002 |
SIBUR Holding Vice President Viktor Zorkin declares that the holding will keep its stake in Kurganmashzavod[65]. |
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Kurganmashzavod is Russia’s biggest manufacturer of light armored vehicles. |
| Russia |
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Early December 2002 |
The first stage of official testing of the upgraded Pechora-2A surface-to-air missile system developed by Almaz Scientific Production Association named after Raspletin is completed[66]. |
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| Russia |
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2.12.2002 |
The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg supports the appeal of JSC Shipbuilding plant Severnaya Verf against the July 8, 2002 ruling of the court on the first instance on recovering 19.3 billion rubles ($603 million) from Severnaya Verf[67]. |
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The court passed a ruling binding Severnaya Verf to repay to the government the 182.6 million rubles (about $6 mln) spent on the construction of 2 Project 956 destroyers laid down for the Russian Navy and in 1999-2000 sold to China for $614 million[68]. |
| Russia |
World market |
10.12.2002 |
Chairman of the Russian Federation Committee for Military-Technical Cooperation with Foreign States (CMTC) Mikhail Dmitriev declares that arms exports exceeded $4 billion and foreign currency receipts from arms exports exceeded $4.4 billion in 2002[69]. |
Over $4 billion |
Dmitriev said that Rosoboronexport had exported $3.4 billion worth of arms and military hardware by the beginning of December 2002[70]. |
| Russia, Rosoboronexport |
China |
16.12.2002 |
Nine Su-30MKK multirole fighters and aircraft equipment are delivered to China under the 2001 contract for 38 fighters[71]. |
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| Russia |
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19.12.2002 |
A Su-35 fighter (board number 711) of Sukhoi Design Bureau crashes in Moscow region during a test flight[72]. |
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Early reports attributed the crash to a failure of the aircraft’s remote control system[73]. |
| Russia |
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20.12.2002 |
The Volga radar station for the detection of ballistic missiles and space objects enters test-and-combat duty with the Russian Space Forces near Baranovichi, Belarus[74]. |
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| Russia |
Ukraine |
23.12.2002 |
The Russian and Ukrainian defense ministers sign a plan of bilateral military-technical cooperation for 2003[75]. |
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| Ukraine |
World market |
25.12.2002 |
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signs a decree on additional measures to improve control over arms export[76]. |
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Under the decree, in order to speed up the imposition or lifting of UN arms embargoes in Ukraine, the Committee for Military Technical Cooperation Policy and Export Control and other Ukrainian government bodies in charge of international military-technical cooperation and export control can apply or lift sanctions after receiving a report from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, before the adoption of corresponding Cabinet acts[77]. |
| Russia |
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December 2002 |
The International Industrial Bank extends a loan of over $2 mln to Kronshtadt Shipyards for debt settlements with Zenit Bank[78]. |
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The shipyard acquired great debts as a result of problems fulfilling a contract for upgrading two ships of Projects 1234E Ovod (Nanuchka class) and 1159T (Koni class) for Algeria, thus failing to receive $18.4 million[79]. |
| Russia, Rosoboronexport |
Vietnam |
December 2002 |
Two Svetlyak Project 10412 patrol boats are delivered to the Vietnamese Navy under a 2001 contract[80]. |
$40 million[81] |
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| Russia |
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December 2002 |
The Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine (Northern Fleet) completes the first stage of sea trials after repairs[82]. |
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The submarine has been under repairs at Zvezdochka ship repair facility (Severodvinsk) since 1996[83]. |
[1] "Donskiye kazaki zatmili russkoye oruzhie", Kommersant, 04.10.2002.
[2] NAUFOR. Emitent newswire, 29.10.2002.
[3] Interfax-AVN, 6.11.2002.
[4] Interfax-AVN, 6.12.2002.
[5] Interfax-AVN, 15.11.2002.
[6] Interfax-AVN, 7.10.2002.
[7] ITAR-TASS, 14.10.2002.
[8] Ibid.
[9] RIA-Novosti, 3.10.2002.
[10] Olga Gilyazeva, "Avitek aktsionirovalsya", Vytasky krai (Kirov), 9.10.2002.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ivan Safronov, Konstantin Lantratov, "Vladimir Putin podpisal prigovor Rosoboronexportu", Kommersant, 5.10.2002.
[13] Interfax-AVN, 7.10.2002.
[14] Interfax-AVN, 7.10.2002.
[15] Xinhua news agency, 9.10.2002
[16] Ibid.
[17] Prime-News (Georgia), 10.10.2002.
[18] Interfax-AVN, 14.10.2002.
[19] Ibid.
[20] Alexei Nikolsky, Anna Shcherbakova, "Voennye zapchasti pustili za granitsu", Vedomosti, 18.10.2002.
[21] Interfax-AVN, 16.10.2002.
[22] Konstantin Lantratov, "Rossiya prodast Iordanii spetsoruzhie", Kommersant, 19.10.2002.
[23] Ibid.
[24] Konstantin Lantratov, "V Sankt-Peterburge zalozheny dve podlodki dlya Kitaya", 22.10.2002.
[25] "Donskiye kazaki zatmili russkoye oruzhie", Kommersant, 04.10.2002.
[26] Interfax-AVN, 09.09.2002.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Interfax-AVN, 10.10.2002.
[29] Ibid.
[30] Interfax-AVN, 11.10.2002.
[31] ITAR-TASS, 21.11.2002.
[32] Interfax-AVN, 15.10.2002.
[33] Ibid.
[34] UralPolit.ru, 15.10.2002.
[35] Ibid.
[36] "Omsky tankovy zavod obyavlen bankrotom", Kommersant, 17.10.2002.
[37] Ibid.
[38] Interfax-AVN, 21.10.2002.
[39] Interfax-AVN, 23.10.2002.
[40] Interfax-AVN, 24.10.2002.
[41] Interfax-AVN, 4.11.2002.
[42] RIA-Novosti, 5.11.2002.
[43] Ibid; Armenian ARKA news agency, 8.11.2002.
[44] Interfax-AVN, 12.11.2002.
[45] Ibid.
[46] Leonid Zavarsky, "Direktor aviazavoda sovershil vertikalny vzlyot", Kommersant, 13.11.2002.
[47] "Severnaya verf zalozhila vtoroi esminets dlay Kitaya", Kommersant, 18.11.2002.
[48] Ibid.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Interfax-AVN, 18.11.2002.
[51] RIA-Novosti, 25.11.2002.
[52] Parlamentskaya gazeta, 30.11.2002.
[53] Ibid.
[54] Interfax-AVN, 15.11.2002.
[55] Kosntantin Lantartov, "Meksika zakupila pyat Igl dlya okhrany svoyei nefti ot terroristov", Kommesant, 19.11.2002.
[56] Ibid.
[57] Interfax-AVN, 20.11.2002.
[58] Ibid.
[59] Interfax-AVN, 28.11.2002.
[60] Ibid.
[61] "Pyatyorka silnykh", Gazeta, 11.11.2002; CAST information.
[62] Ibid.
[63] Vostok-Media. Novosti Dalnego Vostoka, 04.12.2002.
[64] Ibid.
[65] Alexei Grivach, "Gosudarstvo – eto my", Vremya novostei, 04.12.2002.
[66] Interfax-AVN, 04.12.2002.
[67] RIA RosBusinessConsulting, 02.12.2002.
[68] Ibid.
[69] Interfax-AVN, 10.12.2002.
[70] Ibid.
[71] Interfax-AVN, 16.12.2002.
[72] Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie, 27.12.2002.
[73] Ibid.
[74] Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie, 27.12.2002.
[75] Nezavisimoe voennoe obozrenie, 27.12.2002.
[76] Interfax-Ukraine, 25.12.2002.
[77] Ibid.
[78] Rosbalt news agency, 24.12.2002.
[79] Ibid.
[80] Aviatsiya, kosmos, vooruzheniya, 20.12.2002.
[81] Yuri Golotyuk, "Vyetnamtsam ponravilis rossiiskiye storozheviki", Vremya novostei, 17.01.2002.
[82] Aviatsiya, kosmos, vooruzheniya, 20.12.2002.
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