  Going to graves – the mariners missing for ever
Lost Kursk mariners never to be found will have a symbolic last resting place at a burial ground in Russia’s second city, the “northern capital” of St. Petersburg.
 Log book notes no clue as top prosecutor’s team pulls out – search for bodies continues “for several months”
Prospects reported last week that log book details found inside the submarine may give clues to its sinking were put aside at the weekend.
 Navy honours sailors laid to rest in their lost boat’s city
Two-thousand-five-hundred kilometres from the Arctic dock where their wrecked boat now lies, eight sailors from the lost submarine were laid to rest on Tuesday in the west Russian city whose name Kursk carried.
 Why we took “that chance, that real risk,” by Putin’s minister in charge
Technology was “honed to perfection” in the tightest of timeframes to meet a pledge to president and people that Kursk would be raised this year, the government minister in charge of the project said.
 Second blast of “battle-scale” sealed the vessel’s doom, prosecutor’s officials believe
The cataclysmic second of two explosions slightly more than two minutes apart is now considered the likely cause of the submarine’s destruction, the official at the head of the continuing inquiry revealed this weekend. Full story, see Details.
 Damaged missiles bound, with Kursk, for secret naval scrapyard
Cruise missiles damaged in the explosion aboard Kursk will be dismantled at the secret Russian naval yard where the scrappers are already awaiting the submarine.
Missile unloading hits damage snags, the navy says
Investigators aboard Kursk warned today (Wednesday) of complications in work to remove Kursk’s fearsome arsenal of 22 Granit cruise missiles.
 Cruise missiles won’t go back to sea
Kursk’s 22 Granit cruise missiles will most probably be removed from the Russian Navy’s arsenals. Naval weapons specialists are to inspect all units now being removed from the wrecked submarine, a spokesman for the state military-industrial complex told news agency Itar-Tass today (Tuesday.)
 Russia’s second city has graves for the fallen - governor
Thirty graves have been prepared to bury Kursk dead at St. Petersburg’s famous Serafimovsky cemetery, where a momument honouring their memory will be erected.
 Chilling film shows wreck to the world
Devastation inside Kursk’s shattered hull was revealed to the world in stark television footage from Russia this weekend.
 Russia’s new submarines: Design institute official on the lessons we’ll learn
Designing and building Russia’s fourth- and fifth-generation submarines must take account of what wrecked Kursk, a senior official of the institute that designed the lost submarine and virtually all vessels in Russia’s underwater fleet said.
 “A different degree of responsibility” – prosecutor talks of investigators in a class apart
The investigation into how Kursk died is a case apart in the annals of Russian legal history, and those tasked with probing the truth are in a class of their own, the official leading their work said in an exclusive interview with strana.ru.
 Officials on deck as prosecutor “examines the site”
Russia's top prosecutor led investigators onto Kursk’s deck in dock near Arctic Murmansk yesterday (Tuesday) at the start of their probe.
 Scottish harbour welcomes a hero home
The north Scottish port of Aberdeen welcomed the return to its home base yesterday (Monday) of one of the ships that played a key role in the Kursk salvage mission.
 Awesome tribute of the “silent service” new boat
Russia’s new flagship submarine Gepard will officially join the underwater fleet at a ceremony likely to be in late November and attended by President Putin.
 Edging onward to dock - the final 250 metres
The combined collosus - mission lift barge Giant 4 and Kursk clamped underwater beneath it - raised anchor this morning (Sunday) and began moving from Belokamennaya Bay in the Gulf of Kola towards Roslyakovo dock near Arctic Murmansk, Russian Navy commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov reported. Full story see Details.
 We’ll tell all, vows Russia prosecution chief
The official whose footsteps will be among the first heard aboard Kursk’s shattered frame – and who will lead the inquiry into how the submarine died – renewed his pledge that the state “will tell all” about the disaster.
 Lessons Russia will learn, by the navy’s No. 2
Kursk’s sinking has already led to new, Kremlin-level assessments of national policy towards all branches of the Russian armed forces, a top naval commander has revealed.
 Unloading the firepower: We’re ready, says admiral
A senior Russian Navy official has been speaking of the looming task of removing Kursk’s awesome arsenal of Granit cruise missiles. The submarine’s armoury will be dismantled after it reaches dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk in Arctic northern Russia, in an operation now proceeding.
 The feat of a nation “with the capacity to amaze”
Two correspondents with Russian news agency Itar-Tass sailing with the Kursk mission naval fleet told the popular magazine Itogi of a venture in which Russia completed a task never accomplished before in the history of the world’s undersea fleet – the raising of a nuclear submarine.
 La Stampa: Russians accomplish operation 14 months after tragedy
It was midnight Sunday when Vice-Admiral Mikhail Motsak spat three times over his left shoulder. “I am a sailor and cannot help respecting signs,” he explained somewhat shyly.
 The power of the blast - navy’s top commander tells more
New details about the massive detonation that ripped apart Kursk’s torpedo compartment in the vessel’s bow have been revealed by Russian Navy commander-in-chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov.
 BBC News Online, London
Commenting on the successful lift, a BBC TV news website said "raising the wreck to the surface and bringing it to shore is in itself a triumph of engineering," quoting the channel’s Russian affairs analyst, Stephen Dalziel. "Vital work lies ahead," it added. The site said "everyone accepts that this is one of the most ambitious deep-sea salvage missions ever."
 From the deep, a mission diver writes home
A British deep-sea diver has been telling a television channel’s website back home of the weeks he toiled underwater on the Kursk salvage mission, writing via e-mails he sent from a shipboard pressure-chamber the size of a bathroom.
 No "blank spots" in public’s right to know - prosecutor
Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov will head the team of investigators first to set foot aboard the submarine. "There must be no ‘blank spots’ in this tragic story. The relatives and the dear ones of the seamen who died, as well as all Russians, have the right to know the truth, no matter how bitter it might be," Ustinov said in a Rossiiskaya Gazeta interview today (Friday.)
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And still they come, your letters from around the world. Notes of sympathy, notes seeking to know more – primarily notes of congratulation for the mission accomplished. The geographical spread of our correspondents’ homelands widens daily, as this selection of letters reveals. Thank you all for being with us.
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