Below is a summary of the main military-related events in Russia, the CIS and neighboring countries on December 20, 2005
* During a news conference in Moscow, head of Russia's strategic air command Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov said the following:
- Russian strategic bombers could deliver preventive strikes at terrorist bases
- the Russian air force would receive a Tu-160 strategic bomber in February and another one by the end of 2006
- Russia was planning to test launch more than 10 cruise missiles next year
- the strategic air force command was planning a series of exercises in Russia's north, the Far East, and in the Atlantic
- Russia and the United States agreed to exchange information on air force exercises and flights of long-range aircraft
- the strategic air command's aircraft modernization program would focus on electronics and the adoption of bombers for using conventional weapons
- the Russian air force was not planning to form new organizational structures or abolish existing ones
- there were no plans so far to expand the network of airfields for the strategic air command
- the sale of Tu-22M3 (NATO designation Backfire-C) long-range bombers to India had not yet been finalized
* The Russian defense minister dismissed a deputy commander of the Moscow military district
* The upper house of the Russian parliament approved amendments to a law on the status of the military personnel aimed to increase social support for draftees after they have finished serving their terms in the military
* Commander of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Masorin arrived in Sevastopol to conduct an inspection of the Black Sea Fleet
