{"id":14478,"date":"2019-02-17T07:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T07:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=14478"},"modified":"2019-02-18T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T19:52:38","slug":"secrets-of-public-procurement-of-russian-ministry-of-defense-top-200-most-expensive-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/secrets-of-public-procurement-of-russian-ministry-of-defense-top-200-most-expensive-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of public procurement of Russian Ministry of Defense: TOP-200 most expensive contracts."},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the burden of sanctions, the fall in oil prices and other difficulties of the Russian economy, government orders for the of the Russian military look very impressive. While the Russian government has raised the retirement age and advised citizens to tighten their belts – trillions of budget funds continued to flow offshore through various front companies.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On December 28, 2018, Vladimir Putin signed\u00a0amendments<\/a>\u00a0to the law On State Defense Order, which classified defense procurement details.<\/p>\n

However, on January 5, 2019, the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA) hacktivists gained access to the computers of the public procurement department of Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) led by\u00a0Rear Admiral Andrei Vernigora<\/a>. The UCA got access to a large array of documents, which among other things contained data of the Russian Ministry of Defense with the mark \u201cComputer-aided tender system of the state defense order\u201d [Rus.: \u0410\u0421\u0422 \u0413\u041e\u0417]. Some of the retrieved data has been handed over to InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community.<\/p>\n