Russian inspectors to visit military facility in Lithuania - newspaper

MOSCOW. Aug 27 (Interfax) - A group of Russian inspectors is visiting a military facility in Lithuania as part of the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures, the Russian Defense Ministry's official newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, reported.

"A group of Russian inspectors plans to visit a specified area in Lithuania on August 26-29 as part of the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures," the newspaper said citing chief of the Russian National Center for Nuclear Threat Reduction Sergei Ryzhkov.

The inspection is taking place "in order to define the scope and scale of notifiable military activities or to prove the absence of activities subject to prior notification," the newspaper said.

The specified area for inspection is 18,000 square kilometers, it said.

"The Russian inspectors will visit training areas and firing ranges and will receive briefings on military activities in the specified area, as well as information about units in formation in the specified area," it said.