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Medvedev to Visit 4 Far Eastern Cities, Watch Military Exercise

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Medvedev to Visit 4 Far Eastern Cities, Watch Military Exercise


01.07.2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev heads on Thursday for the Far East, where he will visit Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok, covering all in all the distance of about 20,000 kilometres, ITAR-TASS reports.

As for Khabarovsk, Medvedev visited it three times (in 2006 and 2008 as First Deputy Prime Minister, and in 2009 as President), and as for the other three cities – it will be his first visit.

Under the schedule, the president expects to chair in Khabarovsk a session on social and economic development of the Far East. In Birobidzhan, he will meet with representatives of small business, while in Blagoveshchensk he will meet with the leadership of Amur region’s municipalities.

The main aim of the visit to Vladivostok is to attend Vostok 2010 military exercise.

The Siberian and Far Eastern military districts hosts Vostok 2010 exercise on June 29 – July 8. About 10,000 servicemen are taking part in the exercise. The exercise will be all-inclusive, and the servicemen will train relocation from one theater of operation to another, as well as defensive and offensive operations.

The drill will involve servicemen of the Siberian and Far Eastern military districts, the Air Force, the Airborne Forces, the North Fleet and the Pacific Fleet. The total number of practicing servicemen will reach 10,000.

Vostok 2010 “is not aimed against any concrete country or a military-political bloc,” said the chief of the Russian Army General Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, who will lead the manoeuvres. He they are aimed at “ensuring security and protecting national interests of the state on the Far Eastern borders against a manoeuvre enemy”.

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