The Kuznetsov is their only carrier now, and it is holed up in port right now, and it uses the ski-jump so a running start it is...and if their aircraft have any stall issues...plop! The Kirov's & Slava are cruisers and 4 out of 6 are down for overhaul. The Red Navy is pretty weak, especially in surface ships.
I don't think I'd fancy a cruise with their subsurface fleet either. Torpedoes detonating inside the sub (personally I would prefer a few thousand meters away), reactors dependent on molten sodium as a coolant, and whatever the mechanism is that manipulates the control rods, well theirs was designed with crew safety somewhere below #1 priority.
Was it Westinghouse who made the first submarine reactor? I remember seeing an old 60s era documentary where they showed the ingenious mechanism for controlling it, basically a screw surrounded by an electromagnet that would turn the screw by reversing the magnetic poles. I think the Russkies had to send some poor sap in there to do it by hand.
