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Administration goes on keeping back the truth of SSN Kursk – 62% pollees

Administration goes on keeping back the truth of SSN Kursk – 62% pollees 17.08.2010
Text: RusNavy.com
Photo: Sail of SSN Kursk fixed up in Murmansk. ru.wikipedia.org
Russia's administration continues to conceal real cause of the SSN Kursk accident, said 62% respondents of Yury Levada's Analytic Center.

Only 12% pollees think the official version of the Kursk wreck is truth.

Nearly half of respondents (47%) hold the opinion that the governmental authorities had not done everything possible to rescue Kursk crewmen. More than a half of pollees (61%) answering the question whether the administration did right by rejecting foreign help in salvage operations, said "no/definitely no".

Almost one third of respondents (30%) had no idea why SSN Kursk sank. 18% consider that the accident was a result of tragic eventuality or unavoidable risk of navigation and exercise. Only 12% respondents uphold the official version of the shipwreck (internal explosion).

Half of pollees think that naval service in Russia has not become safer since the Kursk tragedy.

In July 23-26 Yury Levada's Analytic Center (Levada Center) held a representative poll of 1,600 Russian citizens at the age of 18 and elder in 130 population centers of 45 Russian regions. Statistical error of this research does not exceed 3.4%.

Northern Fleet SSN Kursk perished on Aug 12, 2000 in the Barents Sea. The tragedy claimed lives of all 118 submariners who served on board Kursk.

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