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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Kazakhstan: We're Building Up Navy To Compete With Neighbors

Gepard 3.9 classKazakhstan is boosting its naval presence in the Caspian to compete with the other littoral states, the country's naval commander, Captain Zhandarbek Zhanzakov, has said.

In an interview with the newspaper Express-K (in Russian). This contradicts somewhat his assertion to EurasiaNet last year that Kazakhstan was building a navy to deal with "terrorists," but seems more in line with reality.

Translation via BBC Monitoring:

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