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...Novye Izvestiya daily quoted a British diver last week as saying that the diving team had been already told that the operation would be postponed until...
...Prosecutor's Office (CMPO) should forbid severing the bow from the dead submarine, as the cut would go through the hole in the hull caused by explosion, destroying forensic evidence that may point to the cause of the deadly accident. So far, the CMPO had kept mum. However, Novye Izvestiya, a well-informed Moscow- based daily, reported Thursday that the CMPO did indeed rule out cutting off the nose section. The CMPO would not confirm nor deny the allegation to the paper. Ironically, should the allegation prove true, it would help those avoiding the truth rather than people who, like...
...public response. Instead of being dismissed, the murder may have destroyed the last vestiges of confidence in the system. The media pummeled the government for incompetence and toleration of extremism and venality. Corruption, unsolved murders, open demonstrations by neo-Nazis and anti-Semites mean just one thing, the newspaper Izvestiya declared in a typical front-page editorial: "It means that in Russia today there is no state; it is dead...
When the nuclear-power plant at Chernobyl blew, lethal contamination forced the evacuation of 100,000 citizens. But 600 residents told Izvestiya last week that they had not been moved until a week after the accident, after even the livestock had been led to safety. Now, three years later, the supreme soviet of the Byelorussian Republic has suggested that an additional 106,000 people be relocated. If approved by Moscow, this evacuation would confirm suspicions that Soviet officials downplayed the severity of the mishap and grossly underestimated the risk it posed to human life...
...story unfolded in the Soviet press, the disaster itself was transformed from the near non-event of early versions into an occasion for heroism. Flames leaped so high after the initial explosion, the newspaper Izvestiya reported, that fire fighters had to climb to the 90-ft.-high roof of an adjoining building to aim their hoses down on the blaze. "Every step taken by the fire fighters in their battle against the flames was incredibly difficult," the account continued, "because of the hell-like heat from the melting surface" of the asphalt roof. The following...