An Indian Navy representative says negotiations over the takeover of the aircraft carrier "Admiral Gorshkov" will continue until after summer this year and that the country's armed forces expect to include the vessel in its navy in year 2012.

After eight years of repairs, the Russian nuclear submarine "Nizhny Novgorod" this month returned to its duties in the Northern Fleet.

The Russian trawler Nemanskiy was arrested by Norwegian authorities in January this year. Five months later the ship is still not allowed to leave the port of Vadsø.

The Norwegian and Russian coast guards have decided to develop a joint database with information on vessels engaged in illegal fishing.

A major fire has destroyed parts of the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast. The shipyard is a key industrial plant in the region.

Russia's Navy has denied Ukrainian claims that a missile belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea was washed up on the Ukrainian coast last week.

Russia might have to wait with it much-announced exploration offensive in Arctic waters. It turns out that the country has leased out key parts of its exploration equipment, parts of it to Norway.

Russian nuclear power giant Rosatom will take over the management of the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet from August this year. Regional authorities in Murmansk Oblast fear that the takeover of the vessels is badly prepared for and that the process

The Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, could be the place for construction of the next generation of Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers.

A prominent group of Russian engineers believe the K-159 nuclear sub will be lifted from the sea bottom in the course of the next four years. The vessel sunk in the Kola Bay during a tugging operation in 2003.

Head Commander of the Russian Navy, Vladimir Vysotskii promises to give "psychological support" to the Russian trawlers operating in the waters outside Spitsbergen.

The nuclear powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy of Russia's Northern Fleet has completed a missile firing exercise in the Barents Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.

NATO reconnaissance ships are monitoring large-scale exercises conducted by Russia's Baltic Fleet, a spokesman for the Russian Navy said on Tuesday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that during Tuesday's meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukraine's Volodymyr Ohryzko in Moscow, the Ukrainian side handed Russia a draft memorandum outlining plans for Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea port

Russia's Navy plans to expand its counter-terrorist and humanitarian cooperation with foreign navies, the Russian Navy commander said Monday.

Will Arkhangelsk be included to the Northern Maritime Corridor project or will it remain an onlooker? The future engagement of the region in the prestigious shipping project depends on the development of ports.

Russia is developing a new naval strategy which envisions the creation of 5-6 aircraft carrier joint task groups by 2050-2060, the Navy commander said on Friday.

Russia will put its first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine through sea trials in the second half of 2008, the Russian Navy commander said on Friday.

From now on, Russia will actively protect its trawlers in the waters around Spitsbergen, Head of the Russian State Committee of Fisheries, Andrey Krainy said on Thursday, 27.

The Russian trawler "Kapitan Naumov" was detained by a Norwegian coast guard vessel after it failed to report catch results in the Norwegian economic zone.