title: WINGS OVER THE BALTIC
abstract: (By staff commentator Pavel Felgengauer. Novaya
   gazeta, April 20, 2016, p. 6. Condensed text:) A pair of
   Russian Su-24 bombers cruising over international waters of the
   Baltic Sea 70 kilometers from Kaliningrad Province flew within
   several meters of the USS Donald Cook’s deck. A day later, an Su-27
   fighter intercepted a US Air Force RC-135U reconnaissance aircraft,
   reportedly flying within a dozen meters of it. A random gust of
   wind, and one of the Su-24s could have grazed the rigging,
   s
journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The