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	Encyclopedia: Politics of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Russia was the largest of the union republics in terms of territory and population.
		Russia's strong presidency sometimes is compared with that of Charles de Gaulle (in office 1958-69) in the French Fifth Republic.
		Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Politics-of-Russia (13064 words)

	Russian submarine K-141 Kursk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Construction of the Kursk began in Severodvinsk, near Archangelsk, in 1992.
		The Kursk was eventually recovered from her grave by a Dutch team and 115 of the 118 dead were recovered and laid to rest in Russia.
		President Vladimir Putin at the Kursk, Russia memorial to the Kursk submarine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk (655 words)

	Kursk Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kursk Oblast (Курская область) is a regional subdivision of Russia.
		Its administrative center is the city of Kursk.
		Kursk Oblast is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kursk_Oblast (177 words)

	The tragedy aboard Kursk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Divers are preparing to enter Kursk and to retrieve the bodies of the Russian sailors and some equipment that, experts believe, may help in determining the cause of the accident.
		Russia's navy announced Monday that all 118 crew members on the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk were dead.
		According to Russia's Vice-Premier and the head of the commission investigating the Kursk accident, Ilya Klebanov, out of about 500 methods of raising the submarine, review by the commission, two remain and the final decision will be made by the end of 2000.
	www.aeronautics.ru /nws002/kursk001.htm (12065 words)

	CNN.com - Russia mourns Kursk crew - September 20, 2000
		Russia's Rubin military design agency and Norway's Stolt Offshore company were expected to sign an agreement on the recovery operation on Friday, said Igor Spassky, head of the Rubin agency that designed the Kursk, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency.
		Russian naval commanders and government officials say the Kursk disaster appeared to have been caused by a collision with another vessel, probably a foreign submarine, though U.S. and British officials say none of their vessels were involved.
		After the Kursk went down, the naval command insisted for days that some of the crew could be alive, and Russian rescuers struggled in vain to gain access to the submarine.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/09/20/russia.kursk.ap (549 words)

	Kursk, Russia, Pictures
		Kursk, city, western Russia, at the confluence of the Seym and Tuskar rivers.
		Kursk is the transportation and industrial center of a farming and iron-ore-mining region.
		First mentioned in the 11th century, Kursk was destroyed in 1240 by the Tatars and was rebuilt as a Muscovite frontier outpost in the late 16th century.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Russia/Kursk_city.html (197 words)

	Project 949 / Oscar - Russian / Soviet Nuclear Forces
		Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said films taken of the Kursk indicated extensive damage to the ship's bow that he said was caused by a collision with an unknown object.
		Russia Sub, Voice of America, 26 October 2000 -- A note found on one of four bodies recovered from the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk confirms that some crew members survived the blast that sent the vessel to the bottom of the Barents Sea last August.
		RUSSIA / PARLIAMENT / KURSK, Voice of America, 15 September 2000 -- The Russian official in charge of the investigation into the sinking of the nuclear submarine Kursk faced a barrage of criticism Friday as he addressed Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma.
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/theater/949.htm (6452 words)

	Kursk Oblast -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kursk Oblast (Курская область) is a (additional info and facts about regional subdivision) regional subdivision of (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
		Its administrative center is the city of (A city of southwestern Russia) Kursk.
		Kursk Oblast is located in the (additional info and facts about Moscow Time Zone) Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ku/kursk_oblast.htm (120 words)

	CNN.com - Torpedo blast sank Kursk - Russia - June 19, 2002
		MOSCOW, Russia -- A senior Russian minister has finally cleared NATO or any foreign vessels of sinking Russia's Kursk nuclear submarine two years ago, admitting a faulty torpedo was to blame.
		The Kursk was one of Russia's most powerful nuclear submarines.
		Klebanov said the commission had told navy chiefs to stop trying to raise more of the Kursk's front section, which was left on the seabed last year when the bulk of the shattered vessel was raised.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/06/19/kursk.torpedo (474 words)

	russian_folklore.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On the basis of the dictionary being compiled, promising theoretical research is being carried on in regard to questions such as the territorial differentiation of the language of folklore, the evolution of folk-poetic speech, its genre characteristics, the morphemics of the folklore word, and others.
		The Kursk linguo-folklorists are prepared to collaborate with specialists of other countries in contrastive and comparative research on the folklore language of various ethnic groups.
		Analysis of the folklore traditions in Southwestern Russia reveals a continuation of the folklore of Polesie, which was a province of Poland before the Second World War but now is divided between Byelorussia (the northern section) and Ukraine (the southern section).
	www.virginia.edu /slavic/seefa/RUSSIAN.HTM (3701 words)

	The Sinking Of The Kursk?
		Sergei Zhikov, a deputy and a former submariner, said yesterday that the Kursk and the Peter the Great, a Russian cruiser, were on an exercise in the Barents Sea in which "the cruiser acted as an enemy aircraft carrier and the submarine was expected to attack it".
		Russia recorded SOS signals from a foreign submarine when its own nuclear submarine, the Kursk, was sinking with 118 sailors on board in August, a top navy commander said in a newspaper interview published on Tuesday.
		Russia has again denied the collision story regarding the sinking of Kursk, now claiming that the contact made with another submarine was actually a large jellyfish, apparently forgetting their story issued in November 2000 that they had recorded the "jellyfish" sending radio messages.
	www.whatreallyhappened.com /KURSK/kursk.html (6852 words)

	Russia Marks Anniversary of Kursk Sub Disaster - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mourning ceremonies were held in Russia on Thursday to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Kursk submarine disaster.
		The governor of the Kursk Region laid a wreath to the monument of the Kursk crew.
		The Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, after a series of massive explosions, claiming the lives of all 118 crew and sending shockwaves across Russia.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/08/12/kursk.shtml (792 words)

	German Daily Says Russian Missile Hit Kursk - Russia Denies It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was established only later that the Kursk's position coincided with where the explosions were seen.
		The report did not say why the missile had hit the Kursk, but the newspaper said it could have been an error in a new weapons system or that the Kursk was not recognised as a friendly craft.
		It was established only later that the Kursk's position matched the location of the missile's impact, according to the report as quoted by the newspaper.
	www.rense.com /general3/miss.htm (1129 words)

	Russia Mourns Kursk Victims, Five Years On - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Russia on Friday is remembering the crew of the Kursk nuclear-powered submarine that sank in the Barents Sea five years ago today.
		The sinking of the Kursk — one of Russia’s newest and most modern submarines — during exercises in 2000 was the country’s worst peacetime military disaster.
		But questions were raised as to why, five years on from the Kursk, Russia still has no modern deep-sea rescue equipment, the BBC reported Friday.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/08/12/kurskanniversary.shtml (504 words)

	CNN.com - Russia denies Kursk radiation threat - July 24, 2001
		The main fears are that the cables could break, dropping the Kursk back into the sea bottom, or that the submarine would turn upside down during the towing.
		The Kursk's reactors were designed to withstand enemy strikes, during which "the pressure on the reactor is tens of times stronger than during the most devastating earthquake," said Alexander Kiryushkin, head of the Mechanical Engineering Institute which designed the reactors.
		The Kursk was ripped by an explosion and crashed into the sea floor last August, killing all 118 sailors aboard.
	www.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/07/24/kursk.radiation/index.html (344 words)

	Russia Launches Kursk Web Site To Mitigate Secrecy Complaints
		The Kursk sank to the bottom of the icy Barents Sea off the Norwegian coast last August, killing all 118 men on board.
		Then the rest of the vessel is due to be connected by cables to 26 hydraulic lifts anchored to a giant pontoon.
		The Kursk should then be towed to the Arctic port of Murmansk.
	www.rense.com /general12/russialaunches.htm (433 words)

	Kursk Torpedo Malfunction, Russian Government Disclosure - Johnson's Russia List 6-20-02
		The softer line came as senior Russian navy officers and a top NATO admiral discussed joint work on submarine rescue, the first tangible fruits of Russia's closer relationship with the Atlantic alliance after the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States.
		In the wake of the calamity, many senior navy officers suggested that one of Russia's most modern vessels could have sunk after a collision with a NATO submarine -- always denied by the Western alliance -- or a World War II-era mine.
		Stung by accusations he had failed to grasp the seriousness of the tragedy, Putin made it a point of honor to raise the Kursk and give the ill-fated crew a decent burial.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6317-2.cfm (661 words)

	CIS, Disasters Timeline, 21st Century
		Russia: A mini-submarine that had been trapped at the bottom of the ocean surfaced, and all 7 crew members are alive
		Russia: Rescuers have snagged a mini-sub to bring the vessel and its seven-man crew to a depth accessible to divers
		Russia: A subtopics/d/countries/russia.html">Russian sub K-159 with at least 10 crew on board has sunk in the Barents Sea.
	www.mapreport.com /subtopics/d/countries/cis.html (1055 words)

	CNN.com - Russia denies Kursk nuclear claim - April 5, 2001
		MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia has denied its submarine Kursk was carrying nuclear weapons when it sank in Arctic waters last August.
		The Kursk plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea after two unexplained blasts ripped through the vessel during a training exercise.
		The Russian Government is to share the cost of raising the Kursk, estimated at $70 million, with the Kursk Foundation, an international fund-raising group based in Brussels, Belgium.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/05/kursk.denial (464 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Russia mourns Kursk five years on
		The sinking of the Kursk - one of Russia’s newest and most modern submarines in 2000 was the country’s worst peacetime military disaster.
		An outbreak of bird flu is spreading in Russia's Siberian regions, with a loss of 368 domestic poultry and wild birds being reported in the Omsk and Kurgan regions over the past 24 hours More details...
		No cases of atypical pneumonia or something that looked like it were registered in Russia so far, told RIA Novosti a source in the press service of the country's State Sanitary and Epidemiological Inspection /SSEI/, which set up a special round-the-clock service to collect information about cases of illness looking like atypical pneumonia.
	newsfromrussia.com /region/2005/08/12/61244.html (2444 words)

	Russia, Kursk
		The Kursk's wreckage was raised from the bottom of the Barents Sea and brought ashore in October, more than a year after the submarine exploded and sank with 118 men aboard in a disaster that traumatized Russians.
		The 18,000-ton Kursk not only was one of the world's largest submarines but also the only nuclear submarine ever salvaged.
		On Wednesday, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda cited a Russian arms expert as saying radio transmissions intercepted from the Kursk showed the ship's captain saying there was a dangerous torpedo aboard and asking for permission to get rid of it.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/5571-13.cfm (423 words)

	RUSSIA / PARLIAMENT / KURSK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Kursk nuclear submarine sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August, killing all 118 crewmen on board.
		Russian authorities have said it could have been caused by a collision with a mine or a foreign vessel, or possibly by an explosion inside the submarine's torpedo compartment.
		A German newspaper has said the Kursk was hit by friendly fire from a Russian warship.
	www.fas.org /news/russia/2000/russia-000915b.htm (482 words)

	The Sinking of the Kursk, Russia’s Super-Torpedo and the New Threat from China
		The Kursk which sank in 354 feet of water in the Barents Sea on August 12 with 118 on board, was an Oscar II-type nuclear cruise missile submarine — the leading submarine participating in the largest naval exercise the Russian North Fleet had staged in a decade.
		Though the exact cause of the sinking of the Kursk was never officially stated, the Associated Press reported in January that seismic analysis of shock waves suggests that two successive onboard explosions destroyed the submarine.
		This report makes clear that Russia has not converted, nor is the world on the threshold the peace that will mark the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
	www.fatima.org /news/newsviews/kursk.asp (963 words)

	Ladies from Kursk on RWRQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I'm Tailor from Kursk, Russia, with Hazel eyes and Fair hair.
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		I'm Teacher from Kursk, Russia, with Blue eyes and Chestnut hair.
	www.rwrq.com /g/c/Kursk (485 words)

	2005 Population Figures for Kursk, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the aftermath of the Kursk disaster, Russians ranging from oligarchs and oil...
		...of the country's regions, particularly in Krasnodar Kray and Kursk Oblast, as...
		The University Kursk State Medical University (KSMU) is ranked among the ten...
	travel.synabu.com /cities/K/Kursk,_Russia.html (544 words)

	Kursk - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kursk (Russian: Курск; pronunciation: koorsk) is a city in Central Russia, an administrative center of Kursk Oblast.
		The city lies in the western part of Central Russia, at the confluence of Kura and Seym rivers.
		It's known that a Slavic fortified settlement existed there at least since 8th century CE, and other settlements since 4-5th century BCE.
	en.freepedia.org /index.php?title=Kursk%2C_Russia&printable=yes (225 words)

	- SHOP.COM
		On August 12, 2000, the Russian Navy experienced a devastating catastrophe as the nuclear-powered Kursk submarine, manned by a 118-member crew, sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea.
		Peter Truscott examines Russia's failure to respond to the crisis and explains this tragedy in Kursk, providing countless interviews with relatives of the crew and experts.
		The result is a fascinating, vivid recreation of the terrible final hours of the crew as they waited in vain for rescue--an illustration of human courage, human failing, and the tragic repercussions.
	www.shop.com /op/aprod-p26437885 (255 words)

	Kursk Russia hotels & travel information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	www.leadinghotels.com /hotels/Russia-Kursk.html (260 words)

	Kursk, Russia Travel and Tourism Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If you have a Kursk, Russia travel site or know of one that would be useful then please let us know.
		Russian-Travel.net - Story of one man’s tour to Russia in his quest for a Russian wife; photos of sights and people; travel advice.
		Where Russia - A national portal for foreign tourists and businessmen as well as everyone who is interested in visiting Russia, first of all Moscow and St. Petersburg.
	www.matchc.com /travel/Kursk.html (268 words)

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