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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW — Sailors in dress uniforms stood at attention on a ship's deck Friday as wreaths were tossed into the gray sea to honor 118 of their comrades who perished five years ago when the nuclear ...

MURMANSK, Russia - Families of the 118 men killed when the nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea gathered in a rainy, northern Russian port Saturday for a grim pilgrimage to the doomed ...