“The Guardian Unlimited has reported that the operation to raise the ravaged hull of the Kursk nuclear submarine from the bottom of the Barents Sea has been postponed, prompting fears that the salvage plan may be abandoned altogether.
The deputy prime minister of Russia, Ilya Klebanov, announced on Sunday that the project had been put back from a provisional start date in July until a later point, some time towards the end of summer or autumn.
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