Posted on 06/11/2010 11:27:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
A Russian warship will pay a rare visit to San Francisco later this month.
The guided missile cruiser Varyag left Vladivostok on June 4 bound for San Francisco and will arrive on June 20 for a five-day stay.
The cruiser sailed in company with the Russian navy tanker Boris Butoma and the salvage tug Fotiy Krylov. It was not clear whether these two ships will accompany the Varyag to San Francisco.
The Russian ships are commanded by Rear Adm. Vladimir Kasatonov, and the purpose of the visit, which may include other California ports, is to promote U.S.-Russian military cooperation, according to a spokesman for the Russian Pacific Fleet.
No one at the port of San Francisco could remember the last time a Russian naval vessel visited the West Coast, though merchant ships from the Russian Far East occasionally call at San Francisco Bay.
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Oh god. I can’t stop crying.
I wouldn’t think the Russians would want to be that close to so many Communists!!!
Remember the Cruiser Aurora? Conrade Zero needs an incident to stage his coup. Pay attention people!
omg
You are absolutely correct, dadgum Freudian slip, I regularly ride the Skunk train, so Fort Bragg sticks in my head.
Apologies.
First I think since the Civil War and the Quake of 1906.
Maybe they’re stopping in to venerate St. John Maximovitch.
They don;’t call it Russian Hill for nothing. ;-)
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