Yeltsin Seeks Help to Dismantle Russian Submarines 🛑

(26 May 1998) T/I: 10:37:45


Russia is ready to scrap all its rusting nuclear submarines in the Arctic north if Norway provides credits for dismantling them, President Boris Yeltsin said on Tuesday (26/05).
The Kola peninsula, which borders on Norway, was the base of the Soviet Northern Fleet during the Cold War, but since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 drastic defence cuts have deprived Russia of the funds needed to scrap the ageing nuclear submarines.

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA 26/05
VS Boris Yeltsin meeting King of Norway;
Yeltsin and King signing documents;
SOT Yeltsin in Russian saying Russia would dismantle its old nuclear submarines in the Barents Sea region if Oslo offered to financially help;
ws presser;

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