Maksim covers aerospace developments in Central Asia for Aviation Week. He has worked for Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine and was in charge of several ATO sister aerospace publications after working for the Moscow-based CAST defense think tank.
Maksim has a degree in international relations from MGIMO University, Moscow.
MOSCOW — Russia’s defense ministry has released information about its weapons procurement in 2011, and has already approved its buying plan for 2012. According to Deputy Minister Alexander Sukhorukov, the ministry purchased 30 Topol-M (SS-27 Sickle B) and Yars ballistic missiles, four military satellites, 21 aircraft, 82 helicopters, one Stereguschiy class corvette, 8,531 military trucks and other military hardware.
