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...Among the bodies recovered from the Kursk was a note showing that 23 sailors survived the initial accident. How does this discovery change the picture of the disaster and its handling...
...dead telling Russians that the government had misled them from the beginning. The cover-up story from the Kremlin and the Northern Fleet was that the crew had died instantly, but this note shows that we still don't know how long the last crew member survived after the Kursk went down. It's obviously significant that 23 members of the crew of 118 survived the initial accident. So for Putin, it's another case of a syndrome that has been best described by former prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin: 'We hoped for the best, but it turned out as always...
...really. It's a new chapter in a p.r. nightmare for the president, and it will certainly reopen the wound. Nobody has forgotten the Kursk, or the way the Putin administration handled the news and the failed recovery. But although he took a hit in the polls for his handling of the crisis, it hasn't mortally wounded him by any stretch...
...forget. The Kursk was no research vessel. It was a warship whose missiles at one time or another probably targeted many TIME readers. Although the loss of life is tragic, the world is a safer place without the Kursk. LARRY ROBERTS Winnipeg, Alta...
...ironic that Russia had to look to the Western powers for help when the Kursk's weapons were meant to destroy Western targets? And the way Putin reacted put a real black mark on his name. Once seen as a man of action, he remained aloof from the Russian people during this crisis and stayed on holiday. SARANG KALE Pune, India...