The US State Department decided to keep track of all transactions for the sale of Russian weapons. To this end, the State Department announced a competition, the conditions of which are laid out on the official portal of the US government grants, to find contractors, wishing to take part in the creation of surveillance systems for the global arms market.
According to the tender conditions, US State Department requires staff, owning Russian, Chinese, Arabic and several other languages, able to read and translate documents, related to transactions of Russian weapons and military technologies in the global arms market. In addition, contractors will monitor open sources on all of the above languages, tracking information on all transactions with Russian weapons and technologies, and then transmit the information to the State Department for a decision on the introduction of the decisions of restrictive measures against countries, breaking “US ban on trade in Russian arms”. according to information, project initially planned to run for one year, after which the decision will be made whether to extend or close the program.
recall, that in the last time the US tries to completely squeeze out Russia from the world arms market, using different methods, including the threat of sanctions against those countries, who still prefer to buy Russian weapons and technology. Currently, the United States “permit” conduct transactions with Russia only three countries: Indonesia, India and Vietnam, and to then unknown, how long will it last “resolution”.