At the same time, the statesman affirmed in a meeting of the Council of the Defense Ministry that despite growing expansion of NATO to near the Russian borders, Moscow Military Doctrine keeps on having a "purely defensive" nature.

At the same time, the First Channel of local TV showed images of the official ceremony that handed the Navy the strategic nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomaj, third of a project known as 955 Borei, in the presence of Minister of Defense, Serguei Shoigu.

The source informed this type of submarine is the most powerful of those possessed by the War Navy of the Kremlin and the Vladimir Monomaj had overcome all homologation trials before being declared ready for combat, including the successful firing of an intercontinental missile of the Bulava type.

The flag ship of this series, the Yuri Dolgoruki, entered in service on January, 2013 and the second one, Alexandr Nevski, after completing the tests of rigour, was incorporated to the Navy arsenal on that same year.

Launched on December 30, 2012, the Vladimikr Monomaj incorporated the latest technology in the reduction of noise to prevent being detected by potential enemies, according to Sevmashin corporation, which builds these submergibles with 20 ballistic missiles instead of 16 as they had before.

The navy factor of Russian nuclear dissuation in the first half of the 21th century will total eight submarines of the project Borei 955 and 955A, whose construction must be concluded by 2020, accordfing to the Ministry of Defense.(KH)