Red quadrate 05/21/1993 (1993)

Theme of the transfer: Russian military doctrine.

The state border of the Russian Federation.

(Low sound level).

Guests of the transfer: Andrei Kokoshin - First Deputy Defense Minister of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Parakhin - First Deputy Commander of the Frontier Forces of the Russian Federation.

Expert: Sergei Blagovolin is a political scientist.

The plot of Olga Polonskaya about the Russian army.

Shots of the teachings on earth in the air.

Chronicle of the past: Military parades on Red Square, events in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Afghanistan.

The main issues discussed in the studio:

1.Pro preparation for a new military doctrine of the Russian army.

2.On plans to reduce the army and optimize management.

3.On the new structure of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

4. On the functions of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff.

5.Pro long-term program for the rearmament of the army.

6. About the contract professional army.

7. On the operation of the collective security treaty and the relationship with the former Soviet republics.

8.With the multidimensionality and various directions of the country's security system.

9. About the role of peacekeeping forces and the participation of the Russian army in them.

The story of Normund Masalsky about the changes in the status of the borders of the former USSR and the state of the present Russian border.

About the problems that arose in this connection.

On the creation of borderline cordons with the Baltic countries and Transcaucasia.

10. About three types of sections of the Russian border today.

11.Pro economic problems of border management.

12.On the contractual and legal relations on the creation of the border.

13.Pro frontier troops who serve on the outer border of the former USSR. On their content and submission.

14.On the agreement with Turkmenistan on the joint financing of the border troops of the Russian Federation, which guard the outer sector of the border with Afghanistan.

15. On the prospects of the Russian border.

On the most difficult and problematic areas.

About different options for transparency of the border.