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He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

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He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

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Far from Ukraine, Russia plans big eastern military drills next month

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Categories: ASCF News National Preparedness

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Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/far-from-ukraine-russia-plans-big-eastern-military-drills-next-month/ar-AAZZKMK?ocid=EMMX&cvid=90e203d557834c1ab7699ae974de2b65

Reuters/SERGEY PIVOVAROV FILE PHOTO: Russian service members hold drills in the Rostov region

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia plans to hold strategic military exercises in the east of the country starting next month, the defence ministry said, thousands of miles from the war it is waging in Ukraine.

The "Vostok" (East) exercises will take place from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. They appear intended to send a message that Russia, despite the costly five-month war in Ukraine, remains focused on the defence of its entire territory and capable in military terms of sustaining "business as usual".

In a statement, the ministry emphasised that its capacity to stage such drills was unaffected by what it calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.

It said Russia had not cancelled any training activities or international cooperation, and the exercises would be supplied with all necessary personnel, weapons and equipment.

"We draw your attention to the fact that only a part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is involved in the special military operation (in Ukraine), the number of which is quite sufficient to fulfil all the tasks set by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief," the statement said.

Some foreign media were spreading false information about "some kind of alleged mobilisation activities", it added.

Despite Russia's heavy losses and slow progress in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has not ordered a mobilisation of the country's reserves, estimated to number some 2 million people with military service within the past five years.

CIA Director William Burns said last week the United States estimated that 15,000 Russian troops had been killed in Ukraine since February - as many deaths as the Soviet army sustained in a decade of war in Afghanistan from 1979 - and three times that many may have been wounded.

The upcoming exercises will take part in the eastern military district, which includes part of Siberia and has its headquarters in Khabarovsk, near the Chinese border.

They will include some foreign forces, the defence ministry, without specifying from which countries. Troops from Armenia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia took part in major exercises in Russia and Belarus last year.

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