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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Russia’s aircraft carrier rests on rusty anchor

[Admiral Kuznetsov]Russian prosecutors disclosed on Wednesday that the country’s underfunded navy paid an exorbitant price for a rusty old anchor for the country’s only aircraft carrier.

The Admiral Kuznetsov, a ship that has made port calls in Syria but is now undergoing repairs at the Zvyozdochka navy facility in northern Russia, ordered a replacement anchor from the head of a contracted private firm for four million rubles ($135,000).

The prosecutor’s office said the firm’s owner purchased a used model in the Netherlands and then passed it on to the navy at a heavily inflated price.

“He bought it for just 1 million rubles ($34,000)”, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

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