This sounds like something off the Sy-Fy channel - Russians sending an ancient destroyer to the Med...

http://navalmatters.wordpress.com/20...syrian-waters/

More than ten ships and an unknown number of Russian submarines are now in Mediterranean waters, amassing a presence for first time since the dissolution of the fifth military fleet of the Soviet Union in 1992.
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See more at: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/new....53sdanq7.dpuf