There have been two Russian aircraft carriers laid down as Riga
- Riga an Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier laid down in 1981, renamed Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 and again as Admiral Kuznetsov in 1990
- Riga also an Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier laid down in 1985 and launched in 1988 renamed Varyag in 1990 but never completed and later sold to China.
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“They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?”
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