... Flank”, RIAC Blog, December 18, 2014. /en/blogs/igor_delanoe/?id_4=1588
[3] The B-261 Novorossiysk and the B-237 Rostov-Na-Donu. For a complete picture of the modernization plan of the Black Sea Fleet, read Igor Delanoe, “Russia’s Plans for Crimea: the Black Sea Fleet”, RIAC Blog, July 23, 2014. /en/blogs/igor_delanoe/?id_4=1305
[4] “Top NATO general: Russians starting to build air defense bubble over Syria”, The Washington Post, September 29, 2015.
[5] SIPRI Military Expenditures ...
... Russian »), Ria Novosti, February 23, 2014.
[2] The Kharkov Agreement signed on April 21, 2010, by presidents Dmitri Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich renewed the Russian-Ukrainian agreements of 1997 in extending by 25 years the stay of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. In return, Kiev obtained a rebate on the Russian gas.
[3] « Crimée : 96,77% des électeurs pour le rattachement à la Russie » (« Crimea : 96,77% of the voters in favor of the integration to Russia »),...
... Kaliningrad or in Saint Petersburg), and by Bulgarian shipyard (Varna), and, occasionally, by the Ship Repair Plant n° 13 in Sevastopol. This precarious maritime situation was one of the factors, with tensed relations with Kiev around the basing of the Black Sea fleet in Crimea, poor conditions for the personnel and unsufficient supply of new hardware to quote a few, that hampered Russian maritime power in the region. While Crimea’s annexation has solved the issue of basing, the question of Russian maritime infrastructures ...
... buildup of the Black Sea Fleet?
Having examined the plans for the economic development of Crimea and the construction of infrastructures in the peninsula in our previous paper, we now raise issues related to the impact of Russia’s seizure of Crimea for the modernization of the Black Sea Fleet. The buildup of the Black Sea Fleet ‘1.0’ was initiated years before Russia’s takeover of Crimea which has recast Moscow’s paradigm in the whole Black Sea region. Due to the full sovereignty gained over the peninsula ...
