ITAR-TASS – The Russian Navy will have exercises in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea this summer.
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Xinhua – Russia launched a research satellite on board a Shtil rocket from a Northern Fleet submarine at the Barents Sea.
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Xinhua – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet must prepare for its withdrawal from the Ukrainian territory from now on.
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Associated Press – Russia’s navy chief said Wednesday that the country needs to build at least one new aircraft carrier in addition to the one now in service.
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The Scotsman – Another look at last August’s rescue of a stranded Russian Navy mini-submarine.
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Bellona – The Russian strategic nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy launched the new Bulava ballistic missile in the White Sea.
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Bellona – The nuclear submarine K-114 Tula Project 667BDRM, having undergone repair at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk in Arkhangelsk region, will not be handed over to the Russian Navy as planned???The reason is the Ministry of Defence’s major debts to the plant.
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ITAR-TASS – A naval squadron of Russia’s Pacific Fleet (PF) returns to Vladivostok on Tuesday after an almost-three-month-long cruise to the Indian Ocean.
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Bellona – The nuclear submarine, Ryazan, has moored at the quayside of the
Zvezdochka federal state unitary enterprise to enable work to be
carried out to extend its service life.
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Pravda – A Russian naval squadron has arrived in Indonesia for the first time in nearly four decades as the two countries boost military ties.
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Moscow Times – In the new book “Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine’s Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.,” former American submariner Kenneth Sewell, in collaboration with journalist Clint Richmond, reexamines the 1968 loss of K-129, a Soviet Golf II-class missile submarine. Revisiting this well-known story and the CIA’s aborted effort to recover the hull under the guise of the highly classified Project Jennifer, the author argues that K-129 actually attempted to launch a nuclear weapon against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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ITAR-TASS – The Russian Pacific Fleet heads out to exercise in the Indian Ocean.
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St. Petersburg Times – Russiaís new naval chief vowed on Monday to boost discipline and provide better leadership in the accident-prone navy, a day after his appointment by President Vladimir Putin.
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BBC – Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacked the head of the navy, Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, a month after a mini-submarine accident.
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BBC – Once the pride of the Soviet navy, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet can still put on an impressive display???But it could soon be fighting for its own survival.
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BBC – Remembrance services have been held in Russia to mark five years since the Kursk submarine sank in the Barents Sea after a torpedo exploded on board.
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BBC – The seven Russian sailors trapped in their submersible on the Pacific seabed at the weekend say they suffered from thirst, hunger and cold.

New York Times – Divers Say Net Tied Submarine to Listening Device.
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BBC – The Russians trapped in a submarine beneath the Pacific Ocean for three days would have died had it not been for British help.

CNN – Crew safe after mini-sub rescue

Daily Telegraph – Submariners in peril are saved by the ‘brotherhood of the sea’.

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

More from CNN – Robot craft reaches sunken Russian sub.
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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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