Russia to keep developing foreign military bases — defense minister

Russia October 28, 2014, 19:14

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu referred to military bases in former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Russia will actively keep developing its military bases abroad, Russian Defense Minister, Army General Sergey Shoigu said Tuesday.

“We keep developing our bases abroad: in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia. We are developing them rather actively,” Shoigu said at a meeting of the Public Council under the Defense Ministry.

He recalled that recently a Russian squadron went on combat duty in Belarus.

“We settled there and started combat duty and everything connected with training,” Shoigu said.

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