Russian Navy in Cooperation with NATO

Two Russian ships from the Black Sea fleet will join operation Active Endeavor in keeping terrorism from using routes in the Mediterranean sea.
Two Russian ships have joined the two dozen NATO ships patrolling from the Bosporus to the Straits of Gibraltar, in a NATO operation to keep the Mediterranean sea free of terrorism. The operation started after Sept. 11 2001 and since than has extended to safeguard waters across the whole of the Mediterranean.
Russian officials signed an agreement with NATO for partnership in counterterrorism, but were quick to point out that this shouldn't be translated into alliance, "Any NATO country is of course neither an ally nor an enemy to us" said the defense minister Srgei Ivanov.