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...President ordered the Kursk raised. But the President is not professional in this field. He has to trust his advisers. But neither (Deputy Premier Ilya) Klebanov, or (Russian Navy's C-in-C Vladimir) Kuroyedov are professionals in this field either...
...Last May, Deputy Russian Premier Ilya Klebanov said on the record that the Kursk blew up on its own torpedo. However, Moscow is still reluctant to name the cause of the explosion, but keeps hinting darkly at a possible collision with a NATO...
...majority of the crew was in the part of the boat that was hit by the catastrophe that developed at lightning speed," said Ilya Klebanov, Deputy Prime Minister and head of a commission investigating the sinking. It was all over, he said on Thursday, "in the space of two minutes, more or less." The tapping out of SOS signals in Morse code indicated that some crew members survived for a time in the stern sections of the boat, but Admiral Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Northern Fleet, admitted on Friday evening that no tapping had been heard from...
...Klebanov never truly let go of the collision theory, saying the sub hit a "huge, heavy object" of "very large tonnage" that tore open the boat's hull. But he offered no suggestions about what that might have been, and there were no reports of a surface ship in the area with severe hull damage...
...though when linked to the protest of intellectuals they can form a serious challenge. Perhaps most potentially disturbing is the emergence of a genuine workers' movement agitating for independent trade union activity with a potential mass appeal. This explains why the authorities have clamped down so heavily on Vladimir Klebanov and his numerically small group of worker dissidents...
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