In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “ Kursk ” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled military drill. The K-141 vessel ultimately sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea, ...

Moscow's cover-up of the Kursk submarine incident seriously damaged Russian President Vladimir Putin's prestige—and was even viewed by some as a "turning point" for modern Russia. On August 12, 2000, ...

In November of 2008, the Russians were overwhelmed by a devastating maritime tragedy less than a decade after the traumatic ...

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 ...

M U R M A N S K, Russia, Oct. 25 -- Deep-sea divers entered the hull of the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk today and found the bodies ofthree of the 118 victims, a Russian navy official said. The ...

MOSCOW (AP) Russia s top prosecutor led investigators Tuesday onto the deck of the nuclear submarine Kursk, hoping to find new clues to what caused the vessel to explode and sink more than a year ago.

MOSCOW (AP) A top Russian official claimed Sunday that sounds initially called distress signals from the crew of the sunken submarine Kursk instead came from a different vessel in the area. Deputy ...

ABOARD THE <i>S.S. KLAVDIYA YELANSKAYA, </i>July 17 -- Naval engineers using a remote-control, deep-sea vessel conducted exploratory work today at the site where the Kursk nuclear submarine sank, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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