Black Sea Fleet News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered large-scale unplanned exercises in the Black Sea region involving 36 warships and close to 7,000 personnel.
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Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet will receive one or two new frigate warships a year from 2013, RIA Novosti reported, citing navy chief Vladimir Vysotsky .
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Russia’s budget deficit will widen to fund a $40 billion energy subsidy to keep the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
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Russia’s $40 billion gas-subsidy deal with Ukraine and a new 25-year lease for a Russian navy base may put paid to Ukraine’s NATO ambitions and lay the country open to Russian companies, analysts said.
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A Russian military fuel tanker with a squad of marines arrived in the Syrian port of Tartus, RIA Novosti’s Arabic-language service said, citing unidentified Russian navy officials.
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Syrian rebels and Palestinian fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad battled for control of a Damascus refugee camp days after government airstrikes in the area.
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President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to spend $40 billion to cement Moscow’s ties with Kiev after five years of tension by cutting gas prices to Ukraine in return for an extended Russian naval presence in the Black Sea.
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President Dmitry Medvedev awarded Ukraine $40 billion in natural-gas subsidies in return for a new lease on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s naval base as the Kremlin strengthens ties with its neighbor after five years of tension.
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Russia will invest $40 billion in Ukraine and cut gas prices in exchange for permission to keep its naval forces in the Black Sea as the two former Soviet republics cement ties.
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Ukraine’s state energy company NAK Naftogaz Ukrainy, which has been forced to reschedule some of its debts, will be profitable next year after Russia agreed to reduce natural gas prices, President Viktor Yanukovych said.
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