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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Northern fleet to get large rescue vessel

Igor Belousov Class14 years after the disaster with the Kursk submarine in the Barents Sea, the Russian navy will finally get a modern rescue ship.

In August 2000 the world watched the horror when lack of rescue equipment ebbed away the last chances of survival for the 118 submariners onboard the sunken Kursk submarine. Moscow was heavily critizised after the failed rescue operation in the Barents Sea outside the Kola Peninsula.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin likely had the Kursk disaster in mind when he in Severodvinsk last week overviewed the signing of the contract for payment to the construction of new naval rescue vessel.

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