VOL. IV (XXI) 2009 - Departamentul de Filosofie si Stiinte ale ...

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Russian officials do react in public at the moments of crisis can be useful to
go deeper into Russian cultural tradition.
K – 141. The face of Cold Peace beneath the waves
The tragedy of the Russian nuclear powered submarine in the summer
of 2000 in the Barents Sea had become already a mile stone in almost all
attempts to understand the way in which Kremlin consider to deal with crisis
situations in front of the media in general. Many western specialists in PR or
Mass Communication take this tragedy as an almost perfect example of a
total Public Relations disaster. But first let us get a picture about the supreme
weapon that we are talking about.
Russian SSGN Oscar II class nuclear attack submarine
As it is known in the summer of 2000 a Russian Oscar II class nuclear
powered submarine, as it is designated by NATO naval intelligence
community, was lost by the Northern Fleet during its the first major naval
military exercises in the Barents Sea after years and years of pause. The
pure technical details are here apparently almost completely useless.
However, it is important to mention that the Russian Oscar II type nuclear
powered submarine has been build with a very specific purpose and this
purpose may have its own significance in order to understand the Russian