NIZHNY TAGIL, July 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's state defense order will annually increase by 20-25%, a senior official said Tuesday.
Sergei Mayev, the director of the Federal Service for Defense Contracts, told journalists in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, the venue of international military exhibition Russian Expo Arms-2006, that the state defense order would exceed 300 billion rubles ($11.2 billion) in 2007.
