The Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO
proposes to conduct objective investigation of the causes
leading to the accident with the Kursk submarine and the actions
of the officials during the rescue operation. We should conduct
such investigation so that to at least to pay tribute to the
dead sailors.
The fact that such investigation was not conducted at once
conditioned a whole range of tragic accidents in the navy.
The lack of such investigation also demonstrates complete
social irresponsibility of our state.
In general the only reliable information the citizens of
Russia have on the submarine is that “it sank” and the rescue
operation watched by the country for several days was acknowledged
hopeless from the very beginning.
The Kursk tragedy turned into a touchstone for the state
officials, so that bureaucrats of all levels, both military
and civil, realised that lives and sufferings of people
was of less value for the state government compared to the
“state interests”. This conditioned further behaviour patterns
of the state officials in other critical situations, such
as Nord-Ost and Beslan tragedies.
Open public investigation of the reasons behind the Kursk
accident is absolutely required for changing of the relationships
between the state and the society in Russia.
We should make such a step so that to pay tribute to the
dead sailors, their relatives and next to kin, and so that
to prevent such accidents in the future.
Sergei Mitrokhin
Chairman of the YABLOKO party
