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...Servais exemplifies this intangible value we call individuality. Stradivari's cello found its way into the possession of the Russian court. There Servais, a young Belgian musician, contrived to play it before Czar Nicholas I. The Princess Yusupova, the story goes, had fallen for Servais in a big way and lent him the Stradivarius. The Czar praised the performance, and the Belgian modestly replied that it was surely due to the loan of the great cello. Whereupon the enamored princess exclaimed: "Oh, it wasn't a loan, it was a gift!" The Czar's court was said to be distinctly...
...Last May, Deputy Russian Premier Ilya Klebanov said on the record that the Kursk blew up on its own torpedo. However, Moscow is still reluctant to name the cause of the explosion, but keeps hinting darkly at a possible collision with a NATO...
...Meanwhile, some independent Russian and foreign experts believe that the explosion resulted from a malfunction in a practice torpedo's engine, propelled with concentrated hydrogen peroxide fuel, or HTP. Accidentally leaked HTP could have come in contact with silver or other metals present in the alloys used in submarine-building, they say, potentially resulting in a powerful explosion. This blast could then have detonated all or some of the Kursk's other torpedoes, causing the second powerful explosion that actually sank the state-of-the art nuclear cruiser a year...
...Still, the Russian political and military brass would much rather let the Barents sea keep the evidence of their own fault than ever admit it, believes Vice-Admiral (R) Yevgeni Chernov. A sailor with 33 years experience in the silent service and once a fabled commander of the Northern Fleet nuclear submarines, Chernov contends that the raising operation was intentionally launched as a cover-up to leave the Kursk on the sea floor...
...thus nothing could endanger the divers. Then, they said there were unexploded torpedoes there. Then, they said they had meant there could be some torpedoes outside the boat, but no explosives were left inside. Then, they insisted there were no torpedoes outside. Finally, early this month, Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, Russian Navy's Commander-in-Chief, confirmed that there still might be unexploded torpedoes inside the boat, but he was "100 percent sure" there were no unexploded torpedoes outside...