ADMIRAL: PACIFIC FLEET AS SMALL AS IT CAN GET.

The commander-in-chief of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Adm. Vladimir Kuroyedov, said yesterday that the fleet could not be reduced below its current level. Kuroyedov complained that over the past 4 years the fleet had shrunk from 335 to 140 ships, with commensurate cuts in personnel. (Interfax-Eurasia, December 5)

Russian Mothers Win Alternative Nobel Prize.