Below is a summary of the main military-related events in Russia, the CIS and neighboring countries on December 14, 2005
* The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, adopted in the third reading amendments to a law on the status of military personnel, dealing mainly with social support for draftees discharged from service
* Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said a military training center for contract soldiers would be established at a Urals university
* Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov announced the following:
-- the 2005 state defense order will be fulfilled, and the government will adopt the 2006 state defense order by the end of the year
-- Russia is not considering structural reform of its military at present
-- the number of draft-dodgers significantly declined in 2005, and a decision to cancel some deferments of the conscript service has been postponed until 2006
-- Russia has not received a demand from Ukraine for higher lease rates for the Black Sea Fleet bases in the Crimea
* Recently appointed head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power Sergei Kiriyenko said Russian nuclear research centers were "the backbone of the national defense capability"
* The emergency situations committee of the Kamchatka Region demanded that the military authorities in Russia's northeast apply stricter safety measures for the transportation and destruction of decommissioned armaments
