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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Russia to send warships to Syria in 2012

Admiral Nikolai KuznetsovNaval spokesman confirms plan to send flotilla of ships led by Russia's only aircraft carrier to little-utilized base in Tartus port, but insists it has nothing to do with deadly violence in Syria.

Russia will send a flotilla of warships led by its only aircraft carrier to its naval base in Syria for a port call next year amid tensions with the West over the Syrian crisis, a Russian report said Monday.

The ships, headed by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, will dock at the little-utilized Russian base in the Syrian port of Tartus in spring 2012, the Izvestia daily said, quoting the Russian Navy.

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