Caspian Flotilla.

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Black Death in preparation and training.

Russian marines! Always looking for any news items regarding these guys!

"Some 600 Marines Take Part in Anti-Terror Drills in Southern Russia"

"Defense Ministry Southern Military District press service said that around 600 Russian marines from the Caspian Flotilla have begun amphibious assault exercises in the country’s southern republic of Dagestan."

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"Dagestan is a hotbed of Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus and multiple violent attacks have been recorded in the region over the past decade."

The defector Suvorov making the assertion that Soviet/Russian marines:

"a regiment of marine infantry, with the same equipment as that issued to the Land Forces, is the equivalent in its operational potential of one of the latter's motor-rifle divisions."

Russian marines no longer wearing the all-black uniform WITH CAPE!!

This Sputnik Internet web site often carrying news items with a military dimension!! Devoted readers to the blog might want to bookmark!

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