RUSSIAN NAVY CONDUCTS SECOND BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST…

The headquarters of Russia’s Northern Fleet has announced that Russian strategic nuclear submarines successfully fired ballistic missiles at a target in northeast Russia during an exercise in the Barents Sea yesterday. (Itar-Tass, July 15) Details were not available, but the exercise sounded similar to one reported July 1 in which three Russian subs simultaneously fired ballistic missiles from the far eastern Sea of Okhotsk (See Monitor, July 2)

…But no Funding for Russian Naval Personnel.