The in-depth story of the Kursk Submarine Disaster. When it was commissioned in 1994, the nuclear submarine K-141 “Kursk” was one of the most powerful assets of the Russian Navy. The size of two jumbo ...

It amounted to a disaster, in which the submarine was subject to two enormous explosions, killing all 118 crew on board. In the chaos of the aftermath of the blast, Vladimir Putin, who had recently ...

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. The Americans almost ...

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