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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 ...

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 ...

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