GLAZIYEV: DEFENSE INDUSTRIES NOW SOURCE OF "SOCIAL INSTABILITY."

The Russian government’s failure to support the military-industrialcomplex has transformed that foundation of the state into "amajor source of social instability and economic cataclysms,"Duma economic policy committee chairman Sergei Glaziyev told Birzhevskiyevedomosti (no. 30). Other Duma members echoed his concerns,but the vice chairman of the Duma defense committee AleksandrPiskunov pointed out that Russia can "no longer afford"a large army or a large industrial base to support it.

Russian Government to Supply Russian Firms with Strategic Materials.