Putin creates headquarters to combat terrorism at sea
Vladimir Putin in the bathyscaphe. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation in Kaspiysk (Dagestan), Murmansk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, as well as in the annexed Simferopol of operational headquarters for organizing and managing "counter-terrorist operations in the territorial sea, exclusively the economic zone, on the continental shelf of the Russian Federation." This was reported on Saturday by Interfax.