Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) drinks tea with sailors of the patrol ship in the Caspian Sea.
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Putin Checks Caspian Borders
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is paying a visit to the Astrakhan Region, focused on frontier problems yesterday. Putin first went down the Volga aboard the Rossia Liner, then canvassed poaching and border protection issues on board of the patrol ship in the Caspian Sea.
After dropping down the Volga yesterday morning, Putin moved to PSKR-500 Sokzhoy patrol ship of the Federal Security Service’s naval divisions.
Ship master Lieutenant Commander Alexey Vezhansky met the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on the deck. Having inspected the ship and presented with a light blue parade cap and navy officer’s blouse, Putin held meeting with Vladimir Pronichev, first deputy director of the Federal Security Service and head of the Frontier Service, and Nikolay Lisinsky, who is in charge of the Regional Frontier Division of the South Federal District. Putin was particularly interested in how the border guards of the Caspian Sea in particular and of Russia in general fight poaching. According to Lisinsky the problem is aggravated by imperfect laws that enable “all those unauthorized” to practise fish conservation. Besides the poaching problems, Lisinsky told Putin about successful cooperation with Kazakhstan - six groups of drug dealers were cancelled out during 2004 and in the first half of this year. According to Pronichev, 14.8 billion rubles are needed to cover in whole the southern border of Russia in the Caspian Region.
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All the Article in Russian as of July 14, 2005
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