Putin highlighted military power and Arctic shipping when visiting Murmansk
Vladimir Putin came to Murmansk Thursday afternoon. The motorcade drove directly from the airport to the Second World War memorial, by locals named Alyosha, where the Russian leader laid flowers next to the Eternal Flame. In front of the 35 meters high monument, big posters celebrating the up-coming 80th anniversary of the victory of Second World War are already on display. From Alyosha, Putin drove pass the Kursk submarine memorial without stopping. The sail of the ill-fated submarine that sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, killing all 118 sailers onboard, forms the monument.
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