Such pronouncements reflect the tradition of Russian leaders looking to the navy for status projection on the international arena, as a prominent symbol that Russia is a great power, able to show ...

Russian and Soviet Navy's photo archive The ship’s first ... In any case, Aurora has since been celebrated as one of the main Soviet symbols. Yuri Vyshinsky/Lenfilm, 1965 When the Russian ...

The Indonesian navy command and Russian Rear Admiral Aleksey Sysuyev ... the Russians received hats bearing Indonesian navy symbols and commemorative coins, while representatives of the Pacific ...

But a recent surge in professional photos of Soviet symbols released through Kremlin-funded media indicates a possible widespread embrace of the aesthetic among Russia's military. Ian Garner ...