Putin approves changes to Russian naval doctrine - Rogozin
BALTIISK, Kaliningrad region. July 26 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved changes to the Russian naval doctrine, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
"The document was approved by the governmental Naval Collegium late last year - early this year and submitted to the president. Today the president announced that he has approved the naval doctrine," Rogozin told reporters.
The naval doctrine will serve as a basis for drafting Russia's short-, medium-, and long-term naval planning documents, Rogozin said. "Together with the military doctrine approved in 2014, it creates the main basis for state approaches towards protecting national strategic interests in the naval sphere, he said.
"We assume that the naval doctrine will soon be used as a basis for drafting a bill on state control over the naval sphere, which will assign the coordinating and consolidating role to the Russian government's Naval Collegium, as well as naval councils in maritime regions to ensure full protection of Russia's interests both in its own territorial waters, on the coast, at the territorial sea and in the big ocean," the deputy prime minister said.
The full text of the new version of the Russian Federation Naval Doctrine has been published on the official site of the Russian President (www.kremlin.ru), the Kremlin press office told Interfax on Sunday.