02/20/2009
In effort to restructure, Russian Navy launches re-training of seamen at Northern Fleet
In an effort to restructure its armed forces, Russia has launched into a program to retrain the servicemen scheduled to be discharged at the Northern Fleet.
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02/20/2009
Northern Fleet preparing to meet Defense of Motherland Day
The Russian Northern Fleet has already approved a program of celebrations to mark Defense of the Motherland Day.
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02/20/2009
Pacific Fleet preparing to meet Defense of Motherland Day
Feverish preparations are underway in Russia’s Far East region in anticipation of Defense of Motherland Day.
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02/19/2009
Office of Commander of the Navy appears at Admiralty building in St. Pete
An office for the commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, has been refurbished, outfitted with communication equipment and is now ready at the Admiralty building in St.Petersburg, Ria Novosti reported citing a source in the Russian Navy.
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02/19/2009
Baltic Fleet sailors discuss Neustrashimy’s mission in Gulf of Aden in teleconference
Representatives of the Baltic Fleet took part in a teleconference organized by the Modern Academy for Humanities to discuss the problems of security and the fight against piracy - the participation of the Russian Navy - in international sea navigation.
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02/18/2009
Punishment must be made irreversible for pirates – Russian presidential envoy
Anatoly Safonov, the Russian president’s special representative on international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and transnational crime, has announced that the question of making punishment for pirates irreversible must be addressed.
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02/18/2009
Missile cruiser Moskva returns to Sebastopol from Mediterranean
The missile cruiser Moskva of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on Tuesday returned to its base in Sebastopol after completing a mission in the Mediterranean, an official from the Information Service of the Black Sea Fleet told Ria Novosti by telephone.
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 02/18/2009
Russian escort Vessel Yaroslav Mudry to begin sea trials in late February
The escort vessel of the Russian Baltic Fleet Yaroslav Mudry will begin sea trials in the Baltic Sea on February 26.
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02/18/2009
Russian intel service calls for disclosure of site of Western subs’ collision
The French and British navies should disclose information about the site of the collision of their nuclear submarines in order for an environmental monitoring to take place, a high-ranking source in the Russian military intelligence service said, according to Ria Novosti.
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 02/18/2009
Training for marine commanders underway at Russia’s Pacific Fleet
Winter field training for marines continues at the Russian Pacific Fleet. Soldiers are practicing hand-to-hand combat and firing exercises.
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02/18/2009
Russian rescuers put out fire on Panamanian boat
Russian rescuers on Tuesday succeeded in putting out a fire that broke out aboard the Nancy - a cargo ship sailing under the Panamanian flag – in the Russian port of Nakhodka in the Primorie region, an on-duty official of the Vladivostok Maritime Rescue Coordination Center told Ria Novosti on Wednesday.
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02/17/2009
Yantar Shipbuilding Factory wins contract to build two ships for Russian Navy
The Yantar Shipbuilding Factory in Kaliningrad has won an order for two ships from the Russian Navy.
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02/16/2009
Russian warship detains 3 pirate vessels off Horn of Africa
Russia's Piotr Veliky missile cruiser has detained three pirate vessels off the coast of Somalia, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Friday.
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02/16/2009
Russian rescuers neutralize fire on Panama-registered cargo ship
The crews of the Russian rescue boats Predanny and Taiphun have managed to neutralize a fire that has been raging aboard the Nancy, a Panamanian cargo ship anchored in Nakhodka in the Primorie region, Venyamin Ivanychev, an officer on duty at the Vladivostok Naval Rescue Corporation Center, told Ria Novosti.
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02/16/2009
Northern Fleet marks anniversary of Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
The command of the Russian Northern Fleet and the administration of the city of Severomorsk on February 15 marked the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan with a solemn ceremony.
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02/16/2009
Russian rescuers resume search for missing sailors from foreign ship
Russian rescuers on Monday resumed the search for the missing sailors who attempted to evacuate in inflatable rafts from the sinking cargo ship New Star, Venyamin Ivanychev, a duty officer of the Vladivostok Naval Rescue Corporation Center, told Ria Novosti.
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02/16/2009
Mironov’s party adopts nuclear submarine’s cause
Sergei Mironov, the chairman of the Russian Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, on February 12 visited the missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov now undergoing repairs at the Sevmash shipyards in Sverdlovsk.
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02/16/2009
Vladivostok remembers the dead, celebrates the living
A ceremony dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan took place at the Russian Pacific Fleet on February 14.
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02/16/2009
Russia and Turkey agree to cooperate on military security in Black Sea
Russia and Turkey have agreed to cooperate in the area of military-naval security in the Black Sea, taking into account the interests of both countries, says a document on a new stage in relations and further deepening of the multidimensional partnership between the two countries.
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02/13/2009
Suit filed in relation to disappearance of boat with Russians in Sea of Japan
The Far East Investigative Committee in charge of Transportation of the Russian Prosecutor’s Service on Thursday filed a criminal suit in relation to the disappearance of the boat JI WON No.1 late last December in the Sea of Japan with 12 Russians aboard, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutors’ Service announced on Friday.
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