Russia's New C-in-C Wants to Reform Navy so It "Stops Shocking Public Opinion"
Posted on: Monday, 5 September 2005, 06:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency RIA
Moscow, 5 September: The new commander-in-chief of the Russian navy, [Adm] Vladimir Masorin, is planning to give priority to the development of the sea-based strategic nuclear forces. He has said so at a news conference in Moscow. [passage omitted]
The admiral stressed that when he had been appointed to the new post he had been assigned the task of improving the state of the navy so "it stops shocking public opinion".
"I have been assigned the task to make sure that the navy stops shocking public opinion, and I will try to carry it out," Masorin said.
At the same time he noted that Russia had and would always have a special relationship with the navy. "This is why we receive so much [meaning unclear]. You are not indifferent to what is going on in the navy," Masorin told reporters.
The new commander-in-chief stressed that in his new post he would like to pay attention not only to improving the technical aspect of the navy but also to improving the sailors' life.
"I would like to address not so much the ships as the people. I would like to make sure that the commanders of the fleets and cruisers and officers occupy a worthy place. I would like to make the navy one family," Masorin said.
The admiral did not tell reporters about his plans for the near future. He only noted that first of all he was planning to make sense of everything that was going on in order to start resolving the navy's problems in a balanced and unbiased way.
"We need to make sense of our actions, but in any case we are not starting from scratch. Various agreements, plans for the development of the navy and an armament programme for the next 10 years have been prepared and are working. The state of and prospects for our navy are quite clear," Masorin said.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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