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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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