Nikolai Paletsky, representative of the ship’s owner and head of the Department of Navigation and Practical Training at the Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy (BFFSA), discusses the circumnavigation of the world by the Russian barque Kruzenshtern in this RIA Novosti interview.
This month Romania has been a source of unpleasant news for Moscow. President Traian Basescu agreed to host ground-based medium-range missile interceptors on Romanian territory as part of the U.S. missile defense project. The plans call for the ground-based version of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD) with SM-3 missiles to be deployed in Romania by 2015.