Navy

02/08/2010 Russian frigate Neustrashimy Friday took part in release of Slovenian bulker Ariella from Somali pirates' captivity, having intercepted boat with seven pirates. Frigate Neustrashimy was the first Russian warship charged with counter-piracy mission.

02/08/2010 In the nearest five years Russia's Black Sea Fleet (BSF) will be reinforced with new frigates and diesel-electric submarines. Anti-piracy missions off Somalia which Russian Navy is currently facing can be only carried out by ocean-going warships.

02/08/2010 Construction of SSBN Svyatitel Nikolai, fourth one in Project 955/955A Borei started in Dec 2009. Most likely, the official keel laying ceremony will be occasional to Submariner's Day which is annually celebrated on March 19.

02/05/2010 Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief will take part in solemn meeting in honor of 100th anniversary of first in Russia Maritime Assembly. St. Petersburg Maritime Assembly was established in February 1910 at the direction of Russian Emperor Nicholas II.

02/04/2010 Russian-Indian sea-based supersonic cruise missile BrahMos will be tested this year at the Baltic Sea. The missile will be launched from Indian Talwar-class frigate which is proceeding to completion at Yantar Shipyard (Kaliningrad, Russia).

02/04/2010 On Feb 3 Arkady Chernetsky, mayor of Yekaterinburg city met with Capt 1 rank Andrei Pavlovsky, submarine division deputy commander who had been commander of SSBN Yekaterinburg since 2001 till 2004. When Yekaterinburg patrons come to meet with sponsored crew they always bring heap of needed and useful gifts.

02/03/2010 Russian Navy Command does not plan to decommission legendary cruiser Avrora famed for her storied fire on Zimny Palace [Russian Emperor's residence] in 1917. The warship appeared in the center of scandal on June 6, 2009.

02/03/2010 Black Sea Fleet's air defense regiment carried out a scheduled field exercise. The purpose of drill is improvement of individual professional skills of naval antiaircrafters and cohesiveness of the regiment's units. One of the AA batteries, command post and other units took part in the exercise. As part of the drill, a shooting practice was arranged for young seamen at the firing range.

02/03/2010 India intends to purchase one more parcel of 29 Russian deck-based fighters MiG-29K for $1.2 bln. Indian Navy will commission first batch of MiG fighters this month. An official ceremony will be held at naval airbase Hansa in Goa on Feb 19.

02/02/2010 Baltic Fleet's frigate Neustrashimy on Monday started escorting next convoy of civil ships through the Gulf of Aden. The convoy consists of Turkish-flagged Horizon, Bahamian-flagged Kition, and Medkas-Pipe flying Cyprus flag.

02/02/2010 Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday confirmed release of 8 Ukrainian sailors. One of them has Russian citizenship. The sailors were previously charged with murder of the Congolese citizens illegally intruded on board the vessel.

02/01/2010 Japanese party thanked Sakhalin Coast Guard Dpt (SCGD) for assistance rendered to injured vessel holed Friday as a result of collision with ice floe at the Sea of Okhotsk.

01/28/2010 The Ship Day will be celebrated at SSN Kuzbass on Jan 30, 2010. On the eve of festive occasion Kemerovo Governor Aman Tuleev congratulated the sub's commander and all personnel. K-419 Kuzbass is a Project 971 Schuka-B 3rd generation nuclear-powered attack submarine.

01/26/2010 Committee on public medals and memorable signs unanimously voted for institution of medal "For Naval Merit". The medal has been instituted to promote service in Russian Navy and maintain naval traditions. Production of medals and credentials are financed by extrabudgetary funds.

01/25/2010 Russia's Black Sea Fleet contradicted information spread by foreign media about a BSF ship suffering distress at the Black Sea. All technical blocks of BSF vessels currently sailing at the Black Sea work normally, there are no failures in their operation.

01/25/2010 Actions taken by EMERCOM rescuers in salvage of refrigerator vessel Smolninsky suffering distress at the Sea of Okhotsk enabled the ship to avoid submersion or drift to the floe. At present, the crew cleans the vessel from ice; that helped to decrease lurch from 25 to 23 degrees.

01/22/2010 Baltic shipyard Yantar has finished hull assembly of research vessel Seliger planned to be delivered to the orderer – Russian Ministry of Defense – in 2011. Research vessel Seliger is designed for conducting experimental researches. Baltic shipyard Yantar was established in July 1945 on the basis of Koenigsberg shipyards Schichau.

01/22/2010 Refrigerator ship Smolninsky with 30 Russians on board iced up while fishing off Sakhalin Island and may sink. The nearest vessels need about 10 hours to approach Smolninsky. Use of rescue aviation is impossible due to bad weather conditions.

01/22/2010 An icebreaker sailed off to the region where two Sakhalin seiners drifted in ice for over a week; it will help vessels to reach open water. On Jan 11 two fishing ships sailed off to fish salmon trout at Terpeniya bay; however, soon both vessels got stuck in ice.

01/21/2010 Defense shipyard Zvezdochka (Severodvinsk) produced multipurpose assembly stand by order of Plesetsk Space Center; the stand is used for assembling head of new generation space booster Angara. Zvezdochka has been taking part in Angara project implementation since 2004.

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