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The increased Russian naval presence in the region means that the Kremlin is seeking to cultivate Syria as a close regional ally, and is looking to secure additional bases for the Black Sea Fleet besides its current base in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol.
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The naval fleets of Russia and Ukraine share the port at Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. Some in Russia would like the Ukrainian city to return to the Russian fold. Many fear that a spark here could quickly lead to a larger conflagration. By Walter Mayr more…
Photo Gallery: Russia’s Last Black Sea Bastion
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Russia was accused yesterday of stoking separatist tensions as part of a campaign to prevent the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine joining Nato.
Georgia said that Russia was arming rebels in the breakaway region of Abkhazia to provoke a war and scupper its bid to join the military alliance.
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Moscow also angered Ukraine by [...]
Sep. 28 (Bloomberg) — For more than 200 years, Russia’s Black Sea fleet has set sail from the Crimean port of Sevastopol to battle the motherland’s adversaries — Turkish, British, French and German.
There’s just one problem: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sevastopol has been a part of an independent Ukraine whose president, [...]
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