When Vladimir Putin launched his bid to be elected as Russia’s president in 2000, he had already been in the role for a month and a half. His predecessor Boris Yeltsin had stepped down on 31 ...

The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August ... The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took ...

and below the surface with rescue divers who finally make it down to the stricken submarine. Why did the Russians take so long to accept international assistance? How did this crisis and subsequent ...

One, or possibly both ships, contained nuclear weapons, but no nuclear contamination was detected by rescue personnel ... C.I.S. “Oscar II” class submarine, the “Kursk, suffered a torpedo ...

Observers from the US and Sweden were also in attendance. It was held at the Nato Submarine Rescue System’s base at the Westway industrial site, near Glasgow Airport. Sailors, medics and divers from ...

Observers from the US and Sweden were also in attendance. It was held at the Nato Submarine Rescue System’s base at the Westway industrial site, near Glasgow Airport. Sailors, medics and divers ...