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Russia and the Arctic (2011) Steven J Main
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom Russian Series If spring comes tomorrow… Russia and the Arctic (2011) Steven J Main 11/05 1 Key Findings 1) Russia has a very long and involved history with the Arctic, stretching over centuries, which can neither be ignored nor put to one side. This historical record is important for a number of reasons, not least because the current political leadership in the Kremlin – both the President (D Medvedev) and the PM (V Putin) – have openly talked about a “generational debt” being owed by the present generation of Russians to those in the past, who spared no effort in exploring and exploiting the wealth of the Arctic for the benefit of the country, as a whole. Similarly, they both see it as incumbent on them that the Arctic will still provide and ensure the future well-being and prosperity for the country in the years ahead and will strive to maintain their country’s hold on the region. 2) The potential natural wealth of the Arctic is enormous, not only in the untapped reserves of oil, gas, nickel, platinum, etc., but also the biological wealth of the Arctic’s seas, as well as the huge supply of potential fresh water, trapped frozen in the ice. 3) Russia has formulated a national policy for the development of the Arctic, namely the Fundamentals of state policy of the Russian Federation on the Arctic for the period 2010 and beyond and has revamped its national Security Strategy, taking into account the ever- changing security environment in Russia’s Far North. -
OOB of the Russian Fleet (Kommersant, 2008)
The Entire Russian Fleet - Kommersant Moscow 21/03/08 09:18 $1 = 23.6781 RUR Moscow 28º F / -2º C €1 = 36.8739 RUR St.Petersburg 25º F / -4º C Search the Archives: >> Today is Mar. 21, 2008 11:14 AM (GMT +0300) Moscow Forum | Archive | Photo | Advertising | Subscribe | Search | PDA | RUS Politics Mar. 20, 2008 E-mail | Home The Entire Russian Fleet February 23rd is traditionally celebrated as the Soviet Army Day (now called the Homeland Defender’s Day), and few people remember that it is also the Day of Russia’s Navy. To compensate for this apparent injustice, Kommersant Vlast analytical weekly has compiled The Entire Russian Fleet directory. It is especially topical since even Russia’s Commander-in-Chief compared himself to a slave on the galleys a week ago. The directory lists all 238 battle ships and submarines of Russia’s Naval Fleet, with their board numbers, year of entering service, name and rank of their commanders. It also contains the data telling to which unit a ship or a submarine belongs. For first-class ships, there are schemes and tactic-technical characteristics. So detailed data on all Russian Navy vessels, from missile cruisers to base type trawlers, is for the first time compiled in one directory, making it unique in the range and amount of information it covers. The Entire Russian Fleet carries on the series of publications devoted to Russia’s armed forces. Vlast has already published similar directories about the Russian Army (#17-18 in 2002, #18 in 2003, and #7 in 2005) and Russia’s military bases (#19 in 2007). -
Security Prospects in the High North: Geostrategic Thaw Or Freeze?
COVER F.P. n 7:Layout 1 12/06/09 16:15 Pagina 1 009 NATO Defense College 7 Collège de Défense de l’OTAN Contributors: Clive Archer Samantha L. Arnolds Alyson J.K. Bailes Alf Håkon Hoel Sven G. Holtsmark Karl-Heinz Kamp Security prospects Frédéric Lasserre Kristine Offerdal in the High North: Stéphane Roussel Brooke A. Smith-Windsor geostrategic thaw Katarzyna Zysk‘ or freeze? Edited by Sven G. Holtsmark and Brooke A. Smith-Windsor NDC FORUM PAPER NDC FORUM PAPER NDC FORUM 7 Security thaw or freeze? Research Division - Rome, May 2 prospects in the High North: geostrategic PAPER Research Division • Rome, May 2009 NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE COLLEGE DE DEFENSE DE L’OTAN Research Division Division Recherche SECURITY PROSPECTS IN THE HIGH NORTH: GEOSTRATEGIC THAW OR FREEZE? Rome, May 2009 NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE NATO Defense College Cataloguing-in-Publication-Data: “SECURITY PROSPECTS IN THE HIGH NORTH. GEOSTRATE- GIC THAW OR FREEZE?” Editors: Sven G. Holtsmark and Brooke A. Smith-Windsor (NATO Defense College “NDC Forum Papers Series”) Series editor: Maria Di Martino The views expressed in NDC Forum Papers are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the NATO Defense College or the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Extracts of this NDC Forum Paper for academic purposes may be quoted or reprinted without special permission, provided that a standard source credit line is included. To copy, to republish or to post on the world wide web, requires the permission from the NATO Defense College. © NDC 2009 all rights reserved Copies of this NDC Forum Paper may be obtained directly from the NATO Defense College, Research Division Via Giorgio Pelosi, 1 - 00143 Rome, Italy Fax +39-06-50 52 57 97 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.ndc.nato.int Printed and bound by Tipografia Facciotti s.r.l. -
Thirty Russian Aircraft Take Part in Exercises Over Two Oceans
Thirty Russian aircraft take part in exercises over two oceans By Global Research Region: Russia and FSU Global Research, February 03, 2008 Theme: Militarization and WMD, US NATO RIA Novosti 1 February 2008 War Agenda Over 30 Russian strategic bombers and long-range interceptors are participating in joint exercises with a naval task group in the Atlantic and Arctic, an Air Force spokesman said on Friday. “Two Tu-160 Blackjack, two Tu-95MS Bear and eight Tu-22M3 Backfire-C strategic bombers, two A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning aircraft, four MiG-31 Foxhound and 12 Su-27 Flanker fighters and two Il-78 Midas aerial tankers have been conducting drills since 9.00 a.m. Moscow time [6.a.m. GMT] over the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans,” Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky said. During the exercises, which will run until February 2, Russian pilots are practicing reconnaissance, missile and bomb strikes on an “aggressor force”, and are flying simulated air combat and air patrolling missions. Drobyshevsky said that all flights by Russian aircraft were performed in strict compliance with international laws on the use of air space over neutral waters, without violating the borders of other states. Russia’s naval task force, comprising the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Udaloy- Class destroyers Admiral Levchenko and Admiral Chabanenko, as well as auxiliary vessels, is currently on a two-month tour of duty in the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic. The flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva guided missile cruiser, joined up with Russian naval warships in the Mediterranean on January 18 to participate in the current maneuvers. -
ICEBREAKER Who Started the Second World War?
ICEBREAKER Who Started the Second World War? Viktor Suvorov Translated by Thomas B. Beattie HAMISH HAMILTON London For my brother Hamish Hamilton Ltd Published by the Penguin Group 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Viking Penguin Inc., 40 West 23rd Street, New York, New York wow, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 2801 John Street, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R iB4 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland to, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in France by Editions Olivier Orban 1988 First published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1990 Copyright (C) Viktor Suvorov, 5990 I 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Filmset in Linotron Bembo at The Spartan Press Ltd, Lymington, Hants. Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-241-126223 By the same author THE LIBERATORS INSIDE THE SOVIET ARMY SOVIET MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AQUARIUM SPETSNAZ List of Maps MAP I Destruction of the Red Army's Defensive System MAP 2 First Strategic Echelon of