No. As already pointed out it is business as usual. I believe it has been about around 6 months since the Tu-95MS were last in the region?
Business as usual and only really amounts to around a dozen flights in a year.
Parliament - Written Answers to Questions 24th January 2013
Thursday 24 January 2013
Angus Robertson (Moray, Scottish National Party)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions Royal Air Force aircraft have been launched to monitor Russian aircraft approaching UK airspace in each of the last three years; and where each such flight was (a) directed and (b) scrambled from.
Andrew Robathan (South Leicestershire, Conservative)
Royal Air Force quick reaction alert (QRA) aircraft are based at RAF Leuchars and RAF Coningsby. The number of days on which QRA aircraft have launched in response to Russian military aviation that approached or entered the NATO air policing area for which the UK has responsibility in the each of the last three years is contained in the following table. The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace at all times. Not every launch resulted in an interception as some incidents were resolved prior to interception.
Number of days QRA launched in response to Russian military aviation
2010 11
2011 10
2012 8
House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 24 Jan 2013 (pt 0001)
It has been the Japanese that has seen an increase in Russian strategic bomber flights.
From April 19th
Japan scrambles fighters against Russian bombers for 6 days in row
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets after three pairs of Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bombers were detected flying around the Japanese archipelago Friday, the Defense Ministry's Joint Staff office announced.
While they did not violate Japanese airspace, this was the sixth day in a row in which Russian military planes were spotted flying close to Japan.
It is rare for the ASDF to scramble against as many as six foreign aircraft in a day. The ministry is analyzing motives behind Russia's heightened activities.
Japan scrambles fighters against Russian bombers for 6 days in row | GlobalPost