In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, ...

On August 12, 2000, two explosions shook the Barents Sea, marking the beginning of a tragic disaster for the Russian submarine Kursk. The Oscar-class submarine, designed to carry cruise missiles, ...

The Kursk's commanders and most of the crew in the front compartments were killed as two blasts 135 seconds apart sent the mighty submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea, Ustinov told The ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- Sailors huddled in the sunken submarine Kursk struggled against carbon monoxide from a fire, according to a second note found on one of the crewmen's bodies, a Russian government ...

What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after an explosion in its torpedo room, killing all 118 crew members. The tragedy ...

OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- The team of Norwegian divers who managed to enter the stricken Kursk submarine called off their operation on Tuesday -- at least for the time being. Officials at Stolt ...

KURSK, August 12 (Itar-Tass) — Events to commemorate 118 crew members of the sunken nuclear powered submarine Kursk will take place at the WWII memorial in Kursk on Sunday, August 12 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, Russia -- A senior Russian official is reported to have pledged to raise the wreck of the nuclear submarine Kursk by late September. Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Prime Minister Ilya ...

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 ...

Over a month into Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian soldiers told CNN the situation there was getting tougher, with casualty rates similar to those seen in parts of the ...