MOSCOW, January 22 (AVN) - The Russian Academy of Military Sciences has held a session to sum up the results of its activities in 2000, the Military News Agency learned.
The session was attended by representatives of President Vladimir Putin's administration, Defence Ministry and other law-enforcement agencies as well as military scientists. The main report was delivered by Army General Makhmut Gareyev, the academy's president.
Garayev underlined the significance of summing up the experience in present-day local wars and conflicts including the Chechnya campaign, which the academy is doing at the moment. Moreover, academy members have written more than 200 scientific reports, conducted hundreds of expert estimations, participated in the work of the scientific council under the Russian Security Council as well as in the hearings on defence and security problems in the State Duma lower house of parliament, he said.
They were involved in finalisation of the national security concept's updated version and elaboration of the Russian military doctrine. Together with General Staff officers, they travelled to the Far East to sum up the experience of the Manchuria operation, held in the region during World War II.
The academy's activities were praised by Putin, who saw Navy Commander Vladimir Kuroedov defending a doctoral thesis there.
The summing-up session approved the work plan for 2001 and specified some of the academy's most important tasks, such as analysis of new threats to Russian security and development of counter-measures against the US intention to deploy the National Missile Defence. According to Gareyev, the academy members will have to develop new theories of troops application in combat missions, including in noncontact operations.
The academy was founded by then-president Boris Yeltsin in 1995. It is functioning on a voluntarily basis and its staff and members are not paid by the state.