31 Mar 2014 11:22

Shoigu: National Defense Center starts trial run on March 28

MOSCOW. March 31 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian National Defense Center is bound to amass data and analytical resources, Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said during a teleconference at the National Defense Center on Monday.

"Shifts of the Russian National Defense Center were put on a trial combat duty on March 28," the minister said.

"In the future the Center will be technically equipped to receive in the necessary data from all over Russia, analyze the evolving situation and to give advice for the elaboration of operative and strategic decisions of the national administration in the peace and war time in real time," he said.