The tragic sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in 2000 remains one of the most mysterious and haunting naval ...

Eight years after the Kursk tragedy, the Russian Navy faced another submarine nightmare when a Freon gas leak on the new ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 15 -- Russian rescuers battling Arctic storms failed today in an attempt to reach survivors aboard the disabled submarine Kursk, but a second effort began tonight as the oxygen supply ...

MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russian officials say a rescue effort is "well under way" in an attempt to save the crew of a nuclear submarine stranded at the bottom of the Barents Sea.. The rescue effort, which ...

It was a day of mourning for thousands of people who gathered at the home port of the crippled Russian submarine Kursk for a memorial service Sunday. The bodies of four sailors recovered last week ...

The note describes how 23 members of the crew moved ... Deputy Editor of Itoga Magazine who talks about the reaction of the families of the Russian sailors who died on the submarine Kursk after ...

No one will call it that until there’s no shred of doubt, but the rescue effort around the stricken Russian sub Kursk may already have become a recovery mission. As the extent of damage to the ...

MOSCOW — Grim Russian offi cials admitted Saturday that all 118 sailors trapped for a week in a mangled submarine were probably dead, just hours before Western teams joined efforts ...

KURSK: 10 Days That Shaped Putin, examining the August 2000 explosion onboard a Kursk submarine that trapped 118 Russian submariners at the bottom of the Barents Sea, is being produced for Sky ...

Olga Kolesnikova, the widow of Lt. Dmitry Kolesnikov, the commander of the doomed submarine Kursk's turbine section, is shown during a television interview. She is a teacher.

The depth of the Kursk, which is similar to the submarine shown here, could make a rescue difficult because of the crushing water pressure. The Russian nuclear vessel lies helpless on the sea ...