NORTH FLEET FLAGSHIP LEAVES FOR MEDITERRANEAN EXERCISE.

Russia’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, flagship of the Murmansk-based Northern Fleet, left for the Mediterranean December 22 to conduct exercise flights of the flagship’s aircraft. Russian officials implied that the carrier will be available for possible missions in connection with the Bosnia peacekeeping operation. (5) The Black Sea Fleet, whose task it used to be to exercise in the Mediterranean, currently seems no longer in a condition to perform that mission.

Economic Plan for January-June 1996 Being Readied.