Russian Air Force to receive strike aircraft from Navy Posted On: Mar 24, 2011 MOSCOW (BNS): Russian Navy is planning to relocate some of its naval strike aircraft to the Air Force by the end of 2011, according to a media report. Russian Air Force will receive Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers, MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors, Su-27 Flanker fighter jets and Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft from the Navy. According to RIA Novosti, the strike component of naval aviation will be transferred under the control of the Russian Air Force by the end of the year. The Russian Naval aviation will be left with the Su-33 Flanker D and Su-25UTG Frogfoot carrier-based aircraft, Il-38 May and Be-12 anti-submarine warfare aircraft. The Black Sea Fleet's Su-24 attack aircraft based in the Crimea under a treaty with Ukraine will also remain under the control of the Navy, it said. Report pours cold water on financial hub plan Kremlin’s March 24, 2011 By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian President Dmitry plan to turn Moscow into a global financial centre Medvedev’s may take longer than he thinks to put into practice, a report by London-based think tank Z/Yen suggests. Moscow ranks 68th on a list of 75 cities, countries and regions in latest biannual Z/Yen’s Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), and is not even among the 10 centres likely to become more significant in the next few years. Prague, Warsaw, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Malta all stand higher than Moscow on the list, based on a large variety of sources, including a property survey, corruption perceptions, an opacity index and online questionnaires. The Financial Centre Profiles section, categorising Moscow as a GFCI’s “global explains that the city a global profile because there is widespread contender”, “is assigned awareness of its but that financial services are not currently sufficiently activities” “its broad and deep for it to be considered a leader”.
Russian Air Force to receive strike aircraft from Navy Posted On: Mar 24, 2011 MOSCOW (BNS): Russian Navy is planning to relocate some of its naval strike aircraft to the Air Force by the end of 2011, according to a media report. Russian Air Force will receive Tu-22M3 Backfire long-range bombers, MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors, Su-27 Flanker fighter jets and Su-24 Fencer attack aircraft from the Navy. According to RIA Novosti, the strike component of naval aviation will be transferred under the control of the Russian Air Force by the end of the year. The Russian Naval aviation will be left with the Su-33 Flanker D and Su-25UTG Frogfoot carrier-based aircraft, Il-38 May and Be-12 anti-submarine warfare aircraft. The Black Sea Fleet's Su-24 attack aircraft based in the Crimea under a treaty with Ukraine will also remain under the control of the Navy, it said. Report pours cold water on Kremlin’s financial hub plan March 24, 2011 By Andrei Skvarsky. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s plan to turn Moscow into a global financial centre may take longer than he thinks to put into practice, a report by London-based think tank Z/Yen suggests. Moscow ranks 68th on a list of 75 cities, countries and regions in Z/Yen’s latest biannual Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), and is not even among the 10 centres likely to become more significant in the next few years. Prague, Warsaw, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Malta all stand higher than Moscow on the list, based on a large variety of sources, including a property survey, corruption perceptions, an opacity index and online questionnaires. The GFCI’s Financial Centre Profiles section, categorising Moscow as a “global contender”, explains that the city “is assigned a global profile because there is widespread awareness of its activities” but that “its financial services are not currently sufficiently broad and deep for it to be considered a leader”.
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