The Zvezda plant planned to double the number of dismantled submarines in 1999, to four, increase the number of jobs at the enterprise to 1,000 or even 1,200. The modernisation of the Zvezda plant, originally planned to be carried out before 2003 and financed by the US within the framework of the military conversion program, will make it possible to start the creation of new production capacities for the repair of ships and shipbuilding (see photo for projected image). As of October 1999 the Nuclear Ministry was searching for places for temporary storage of the spent fuel from nuclear-powered submarines. It was considering bases on the Kola peninsula, the Andreyeva inlet, Gremikha, the Nerpa ship-repairing plant near Murmansk, and Kamchatka. Zvezda Shipyard (Bolshoi Kamen) - Wikimapia How we help to dismantle junk ships and buildings so Russia can have the room to build larger water craft. HK
The U.S. has supported Russia for a very long time, even before it was the Soviet Union in a round-about way through Lord Milner's Round Table group, then during the build-up to WWII when they wouldn't have stood a chance against Germany. The entire tank line they ended up producing were due to U.S. patents. We could even get into the proliferation of the Mujahadeen and the war in the Middle East, where the U.S. and Russia have been seemingly at odds over who gets to triumph, but we should all know by now it doesn't matter which side wins out because the indigenous people always lose in the end, and that's the point. I seem to also recall the U.S. paying to salvage Russian submarines in the past, too.
