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By Mushvig Mehdiyev

An international contest called "The Caspian Sea" will take place in 2015 among the CIS member-states' navies, RIA Novosti reported quoting Russia's Southern Military District.

An international contest among the CIS member-states' naval forces is planned to be held for the first time in the Caspian sea. The Caspian flotilla will represent Russian navy at the tournament. Attending joint international navy drills with the Caspian littoral states is among the main priorities of the participating states at the Caspian Flotilla in 2015.

In a meeting in Astrakhan on November 9, the Military Council of the Caspian Flotilla discussed the arrangements of the "The Caspian Sea-215" contest, the future international exercises, which will be attended by the Caspian Flotilla, as well as the outcomes of the 2014 training year.

The meeting attendees also noted that the Caspian Flotilla's maritime forces conducted the military exercises 2.5 times more than it had been planned. "The surface combatants of the CF have accomplished more the 150 marine tasks. The total cruise of the vessel personnel took over 800 days, while this figure stood at 579 days in 2013. Moreover, the Caspian mariners carried out nearly 400 military exercises, which surpassed the scheduled results by 153 percent.