Russian commentators have challenged officials for not releasing full details ab...
MOSCOW - Russian commentators have challenged officials for not releasing full details about an accident on board a military submarine that killed 14 sailors.
Some Russian media accused officials of starving the public of details and drew parallels with the dearth of official information during the meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor in Chernobyl in 1986. “Absolutely nothing is known at the moment - who, what... I don’t understand one thing: why did a day go by and only then did they make the statement about the deceased?” said Yevgeny Buntman, an anchor for the Ekho Moskvy radio station. “Why don’t we know their names? Is this normal?”
The media outlet RBC cited an unnamed military source on Tuesday as saying the submarine was an AS-12, which is powered by a nuclear reactor and designed to carry out special operations at extreme depths.
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