On the morning of August 12, 2000, during the Russian Navy’s Summer-X naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the so-called unsinkable Oscar II-class Kursk submarine vanished while carrying out a practice ...

Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

Associated Press WriterMOSCOW (AP) -- Russian navy forensic experts began removing the remains of crewmen from the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine Thursday, and authorities said the bodies found ...

A RUSSIAN submarine capable of carrying nuclear weapons suffered a “serious accident” in the Mediterranean, according to reports. Fuel is now said to be leaking from Putin’s ...

MURMANSK, Russia -- In an immaculate and unprecedented salvage effort, the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine was raised from the Barents Sea floor Monday and began its final journey to shore, clamped ...

MOSCOW, Nov. 9 -- A sailor trapped inside the sunken submarine Kursk wrote that the crew struggled with a "shortage" of belts for respiratory kits in the hours after an explosion ripped through the ...

A top Russian official said Monday that the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk would be raised in a three-month operation, tentatively set to begin in late July. Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov, who ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton‘s HiddenLight is behind a Sky History documentary series about the Kursk submarine disaster that will for the first time feature her husband Bill Clinton. Airing later this ...

Fourteen seamen have died in a fire on a deep submersible, Russia's defence ministry said Tuesday, the latest in a string of disasters and accidents to hit the country's navy. Map of Russia locating ...

What You Need to Know: The Russian Navy’s safety record has long been called into question, especially following numerous incidents involving its nuclear submarines. One notable incident was the 2006 ...

Russia has unveiled plans to raise two nuclear submarines from the Arctic seabed over fears they could leak radioactive waste ...