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Monday, January 9, 2012

Russian Fleet Docks in Syria

A Russian fleet and aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, just docked in Syria in a show
of strength to the Western nations.

Russia is back

A large Russian naval flotilla led by an aircraft carrier has docked in the Syrian port of Tartus in what Damascus state media hailed as a show of solidarity by close ally Moscow.

This is the same Russian fleet that appeared out of nowhere and shocked Britain two weeks ago.  See our story THE FEDERALIST - Russian fleet appears off Scotland, NATO asleep."

The six-day port call by the carrier group in the Mediterranean port where Russia has a recently expanded naval base is intended to boost ties at a time when President Bashar al-Assad's government is under mounting Western and Arab pressure over its bloody crackdown on dissent, the Syrian press said.



"The port call is aimed at bringing the two countries closer together and strengthening their ties of friendship," the official SANA news agency quoted a Russian naval officer it named as Yakushin Vladimir Anatolievich as saying reports Agence France-Presse.

"The commanders of the Russian naval vessels docked in Tartus took turns to express their solidarity with the Syrian people," the news agency added.

In October, Moscow joined Beijing in vetoing a Western-drafted UN Security Council resolution that would have threatened Damascus with "targeted measures" if it failed to rein in its security forces.

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