Medvedev visited an armored repair plant in St. Petersburg

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited an armored repair plant in St. Petersburg and held a meeting on control over the production of military equipment and weapons. Medvedev wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

Medvedev also announced the creation of a working group under this structure to control the production of weapons in demand.

“Within the powers that are now entrusted to me, I signed an order to create a working group of a commission to control the production of popular types of weapons, military, special equipment, means of destruction, combat equipment and clothing,” he said (quote according to TASS).

The politician also added that repeated violations in the implementation of the state defense order will entail criminal liability. According to Medvedev, no one has canceled responsibility – both the responsibility of the plants themselves and disciplinary responsibility for the management.

At the end of December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the introduction of a new position – his first deputy in the Military Industrial Commission (MIC) of Russia. It was taken by Medvedev. The first deputy chairman of the commission, follows from the document, can create councils and working groups in the areas of the commission’s activities to “consider issues within its competence and prepare proposals for their solution.”

The commission also included the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Kurenkov, and the former head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, was excluded from it. The board under the military-industrial complex included Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, Maxim Kolesnikov, deputy head of the Ministry of Economics, Kirill Lysogorsky, deputy head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Alexander Trembitsky, head of Rostekhnadzor, and others.