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Jura said:

Mar 12, 2016
... apparently he was busted!

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also Admiral Kravchuk, the Baltic Sea Commander!!
at this point I don't fully understand what the charges are ...

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Defence Minister Shoigu has fired both the Commander of the Baltic Fleet, Viktor Kravchuk, and the Fleet’s Chief of Staff, Sergey Popov, as well as a number of staff officials ... for „serious shortcomings in combat training, as well as distorting the real state of affairs in reports“ ... the Baltic Fleet will have an extraordinary inspection „by year end“

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FORBIN said:

Jura, please precise more with your quotes and the Russian not easy...

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Jura said:

I ROFL: found a list of Russian Navy Commanders according to their (relative) wealth

1. Admiral Korolyov, Norther Fleet: earned in 2014 14m Rubles, owns one apartment, uses another;
   
2. Navy-Commander-in-Chief Chirkov: 9m Rubles, owns one apartment, uses (?) another four, owns Toyota RAV4 and Toyota Highlander;
3. Admiral Vitko, Black Sea Fleet: 6 m Rubles, uses one apartment;
4. Vice Admiral Avakyanz, Pacific Fleet: 5m Rubles, owns one apartment;
   
5. Vice Admiral Kravchuk, Baltic Sea Fleet: 4m Rubles, owns one apartment, uses another, owns Toyota Land Cruiser
6. Rear Admiral Akmerov, Caspian Flotilla: 2m Rubles, uses one appartment, owns Toyota Prado

(I rounded the earnings to 1m, and didn't post what their spouses own ... source, pretty official:

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and the current exchange rate is ...
1 Russian ruble =
0.018533 U.S. dollars

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navyreco said:

Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to conduct strikes in Syria this fall & winter

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Russia’s aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to receive Ka-52K helicopter this year

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"On Saturday, the first pair of planes 279th OKIAP - one" big "(Su-33) and one" small "(Su-25UTG) landed on the deck of an aircraft carrier. In the near future it is expected the arrival of other aircraft of this regiment, "- he explained to the agency.

"In the coming days from the Crimea on the aircraft carrier will arrive and testers on the MiG-29KR", - he said.

Earlier, seven planes and pilots 279th OKIAP made a flight from the Crimea, where they were trained on the ground test training complex (aviation) (train), one of the airfields of the Northern Fleet.

Armed with the 279th OKIAP consist Su-33 and Su-25UTG.

As reported, in mid-July from the Crimea to the north of the flight and four staff of the MiG-29KR of the newly formed 100th OKIAP.

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