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DECEMBER 2012

Admiral Sergei Gorshkov Fails Her Sea Trials (Part Two)

posted by eagle on December, 2012 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

A Depressing Curtain for Russian Naval Power: Admiral Sergei Gorshkov Fails Her Sea Trials (Part Two)

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 224

December 7, 2012 04:25 PM Age: 9 hrs

By: Jacob W. Kipp

(Source: RIA Novosti)

In September 2012, Russia carried out sea trials of the retired Soviet-era heavy carrier "Sergei Gorshkov,” which it is retrofitting and selling to India. The results of the sea trial of the carrier, which the Indians will rechristen the Vikramaditya, ended in embarrassing failure and severe damage to the vessel’s boiler (see EDM November, 30).

As is the Russian tradition, one of the first questions asked about the fiasco was: "Kto vinovat [Whose fault is it]?” An article in Sovetskaia Rossiia put the blame on the Russian defense establishment. It had lost the ability to carry out such large-scale projects and was in danger of losing its market in India to the United States, which had already offered India the decommissioned CV Kitty Hawk free, if India would buy Hornet F-18 E/F fighters. ...

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Serdyukov Has Been Disgraced, but His Reforms Will Continue

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Serdyukov Has Been Disgraced, but His Reforms Will Continue

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 9 Issue: 223

December 6, 2012 05:53 PM

By: Pavel Felgenhauer

General Valery Gerasimov (Source: RIA Novosti)

A month ago on November 6, President Vladimir Putin sacked Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, replacing him with Sergei Shoigu, a former long-time emergency situations minister (MChS), who was only last May appointed governor of the Moscow region. Russia’s top general—the first deputy defense minister and chief of the general staff, Army General Nikolai Makarov—who was driving Serdyukov’s drastic reorganization of the military, was replaced by General Valery Gerasimov. The defense ministry is being cleansed of Serdyukov’s top appointees, with Shoigu bringing in some of his old-time colleagues from the MChS, which in Russia is a militarized institution. Meanwhile, investigators and the state-controlled press are continuing to supply the public with additional sleazy details of top-level misappropriation in the defense ministry under Serdyukov’s watch (see EDM, November 29).

Little has emerged about what changes in policy and substance the new Russian defense ...

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Furious Russia vows to list Americans blocked from entering country

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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described 'biased approach' as 'nothing but a vindictive desire to counter Russia in world affairs'

SHAUN WALKER , JEROME TAYLOR

MOSCOW

FRIDAY 07 DECEMBER 2012

One of Russia's top foreign policy officials responded furiously and promised that Russia would indeed answer with its own list of Americans to be banned from entry to Russia.
"The reciprocal list will be fairly significant, if we name those behind Guantanamo, Abu-Ghraib, and the CIA secret jails, Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia's Federation Council.
"The list will include those who have violated human rights [in the Middle East], and that would be according to global opinion, and not just the opinion of this Mr Browder, who some experts feel is simply using the Magnitsky List as a diversion."
However, according to a poll by the Levada Centre, an independent Russian ...

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DECEMBER 2012

A Depressing Curtain for Russian Naval Power: Admiral Sergei Gorshkov Fails Her Sea Trials (Part Two)

Serdyukov Has Been Disgraced, but His Reforms Will Continue

US starts a new 'cold war' over Magnitsky affair: Furious Russia vows to list Americans blocked from entering country, after US votes to name and shame corrupt officials