Russia ready to review UN mission format in Syria but insists it must stay; Russia’s three landing ships with marines to call at Syria’s Tartus port; Russia-UK seek to strengthen bilateral ties especially in the nuclear power sector field; President Putin
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    • According to reports, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin has said that Russia is ready to review the format of the United Nations observer mission in Syria but categorically opposes its dissolution favoured by a number of Western countries. 1

    Meanwhile, according to reports, three landing ships of the Russia’s Northern Fleet carrying marines with fire arms, and currently sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, will call at the naval supply base of the Syrian port Tartus in a few days. The reasons for the port of call has been given as a “replenish material stock” without elaborating whether Russian marines will stay at the Russian naval base to ensure its security. 2

    According to reports, President Putin, in the backdrop of his visit to the UK, has said that nuclear power engineering might become one of the key areas of Russian-British economic cooperation. Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has not ruled out a possibility of joining the Horizon project for building a new generation nuclear plant in Britain. 3

    Reports noted that President Putin has signed the federal bill on State Regulation of Commercial Navigation in the Arctic Route Area which aims to bring the existing system of Arctic Route management in keeping with the Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020. The bill defines the notion of the Arctic Route area, refines the legal status and boundaries of this transportation system of the Russian Federation, envisages establishing the Arctic Route administration in the form of a federal institution organizing vessels’ navigation in the area, and stipulating its functions, including the issuing of permissions for vessels’ navigation in the Arctic Route area. 4

    In other developments, President Putin has said that there was nothing wrong about the law which looks to impose a foreign-agent status on foreign-sponsored non-commercial organizations. He stressed that the requirement to register as foreign agents is applicable only to those non-commercial organizations which are engaged in political activities in Russia and are funded from abroad. 5

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