The Kursk’s loss of its 118-person crew makes it one of the deadliest in modern history. In August 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sailed to the Arctic Circle to participate in a scheduled ...

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. On August 12, 2000, ...

Model of the Kursk nuclear submarine at the Lennusadam Maritime Museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Pjotr Mahhonin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY During his first term, Vladimir Putin had to confront a raft of ...

In August 2000, the Kursk Oscar-class submarine was participating in Russia’s Summer-X exercise when tragedy prevailed. As part of the drill, Kursk was meant to launch a pair of training torpedoes.

MOSCOW (AP) A top Russian official claimed Sunday that sounds initially called distress signals from the crew of the sunken submarine Kursk instead came from a different vessel in the area. Deputy ...

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