Russian Navy may scrap its only aircraft carrier

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I wonder if the Chinese would be interested in buying her. They bought the half-completed sister ship of the Kuznetsov, Varvag, from Ukraine and completed her as the Liaoning. However, they already have the one carrier to experiment with and the Chinese made modifications to the design when completing her. (Most notably eliminating the anti-ship missiles used by the Soviets/Russians to claim the class was an aircraft-carrying cruiser instead of an aircraft carrier so as to sidestep the Montreux Convention.)  Given the age of the ship and its damage, I suspect that the Chinese would buy the Kuznetsov only if there are parts that can be used as spares for the Liaoning.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Just for point of comparison, the Soviet Union had seven aircraft carriers built and operated.  Nearly all were decommissioned in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War.  This is the last of those Cold War-era carriers.   

I don't think those were super carriers like the Americans had, but still 7 is very impressive. The collapse of the USSR has been devastating for Russia.

I don't think any other country had "supercarriers" like the US Navy. For example British carriers were pretty small in comparision.

Had the Soviets completed the Ulyanovsk, they would've had one, but it's hull was only about 20% complete when the Soviet Union collapsed.