BBC – A British underwater robot craft begins slicing through fishing nets trapping a Russian sub on the ocean floor.

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BBC – The Russian navy is involved in a race against time to rescue seven sailors from a mini-submarine trapped on the sea bed in the Russian Far East. Japan, the US, and England are also sending teams to help.

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CNN – U.S. relief crew on way to Russian sub.

Daily Telegraph – Race to save mini-sub trapped in nets.

The Times – World’s navies race to save stricken sub before crew runs out of air.

Washington Post – Russian Sub Stranded With a Day’s Air.
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Bellona – A total of eight nuclear submarines of 671RTM (Victor-III) project will be tugged from the Northern fleet bases to the Zvezdochka shipyard for scrapping in July and August.
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Bellona – Difficulties with the financing of defence orders hinder the upgrade program of the Delta-IV strategic nuclear submarines in Severodvinsk.
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Bellona – Akula-class nuclear submarine K-317 îPantherî was placed in the dock of Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region.
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StrategyPage – When people look at the Russian Akula and Oscar-class submarines, they wonder why these vessels have not been given as much respect and praise as Western submarines like the Los Angeles, Seawolf, and Trafalgar-classes. The answers are, illuminating, and are worth keeping in mind.
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The Independent – Italy has an unwanted legacy from the Cold War in the form of 20 nuclear warheads on the seabed in the Bay of Naples, left there by the Soviet navy 25 years ago, it has been claimed.
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Bellona – Reconstruction and upgrade of the nuclear-powered cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is under way at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk.
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Bellona – The Baltic and Northern Fleets will conduct exercises in North Atlantic in August-September, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Kuroyedov told journalists on January 31.
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Bellona – In 2005, the Russian Navy will be supplied with two strategic nuclear-powered submarines Yury Dolgoruky and Dmitry Donskoy carrying on board the newest sea-based missiles systems “Bulava”, claims the First Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Belousov.
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St. Petersburg Times – A review of a new book on the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk.

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UPI – Russia and Turkey have announced intent to sign an agreement to prevent incidents at sea.
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Bellona – Controversy surrounds an explosion that aboard a Delta III class ballistic missile submarine two weeks ago.
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Xinhua – A nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet successfully fired a ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Associated Press – Russia agreed Thursday to send warships to help NATO’s naval patrols monitoring suspicious vessels in the Mediterranean as part of a drive for closer counterterrorism co-operation between Moscow and the western alliance.
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Xinhua – Russia and the US are exercising together in the Atlantic Ocean.
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