It is rather unusual for the official news agency to publish an expert opinion that “the Northern Fleet in its current strength cannot perform even elementary tasks on ensuring national security in this vast region“. The volume of assertive statements has much increased after the short cruise of a squadron led by Petr Veliky along a western part of Sevmorput last September (in the picture).
The article by Andrei Zagorsky in Nezavisimaya gazeta gives a good overview of real problems in the Arctic policy.
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