Moscow nonstop sends Washington a message about the fact that Russia is a world power, said the head of the North American command aerospace defense (NORAD) Admiral bill Gortney, reports. Delivering a speech in the U.S. Congress in March, Gortney said that Russian heavy bombers in the past year took a flight "outside the patrol zone" much more often than in any year of Field end of the cold war. In prosesi Tuesday he confirmed that the number of flights increases, and are they all in new places - quite close to the airspace of Canada, off the coast of Alaska and in the area of the English channel. The Admiral also said that two Russian warships are in the vicinity of the coast of the US is very close with Cuba and Venezuela. According to Gortney, Russia has entered the event in military operations in Ukraine, and this, with the position of Admiral, demonstrates the use of Moscow's new military doctrine. "Russia has created a much more efficient compact army than was the numerous army of the Soviet Union ", - noted Horti. Fox news cites the statistic that of the USSR in the mid 1980-ies were under arms more than 5 million soldiers. Today in the Russian army not more than one million soldiers and officers, as well as about 2 million reservists - that's almost the size of the American army, but fewer than are in the service of the United NATO forces, stresses of Fox news. the Russian authorities message about the participation of Russian soldiers in the fighting in the Donbass. In addition, the Russian defense Ministry has repeatedly stated that all flights of aircraft of the air forces of the Russian Federation have been performed in strict accordance with international rules on the use of airspace over neutral waters without violating the borders of other countries.