Russia sends 447 goats to North Korea in a sign of deepening ties North Korean parliamentary leader meets Russian delegation ...

In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sinking with 118 crew aboard. Caused by a hydrogen peroxide-fueled torpedo ...

In the absence of a large-scale conflict for the submarine to display its qualities, the Kursk tragedy remains one of the main events for which the Oscar II class is known. In August 2000 ...

A Russian diver entered the Kursk nuclear submarine for the first time Wednesday but failed to find any of the 118 sailors who died when the vessel sank in August, a top navy commander said.

One of the first stories I ever reported on in Russia was a submarine disaster. In August 2000, two explosions sent the 17,000 tonne nuclear-powered Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea and took ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

Kursk submarine tragedy has its own place in the world navy history. What is the legacy and lessons of that incident? What has changed in the Russian submarine industry and how an Australian ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...