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En route
MURMANSK REGION. Today at 15.00 began a campaign of naval aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet in the North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It is reported by the press service of the Federation Council.
The group consists of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Kuznetsov" heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great", the large anti-submarine ship "Severomorsk" and "Vice-Admiral Kulakov" and support vessels.
The goal of the campaign - ensuring a naval presence in operationally important areas of the oceans.
Particular attention will be paid to ensuring the safety of maritime navigation and other maritime economic activities of the Russian Federation, as well as respond to new types of modern threats of piracy and international terrorism.
The campaign will be improved maritime training and combat coordination of crews of surface ships practiced joint action force and naval aircraft carrier group aircraft, including the flight deck of aircraft and helicopters. Planned joint military exercises with ships of other fleets of the Russian Navy.
A few days earlier, the crews of ships aircraft carrier group completed the planned preparations for the long march in military training ranges of the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea.
Previous joint campaign in the Mediterranean area and the North-East Atlantic, the heavy cruiser "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" and "Peter the Great" was completed in the first half of 2014. For the flagship aircraft carrier group - the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" began the long march will be the eighth.