Kommersant, May 19, 2001, p. 1
As we predicted earlier, yesterday General Designer and Head of CDB ME “Rubin” Igor Spassky and deputy naval Chief Vice-Admiral Mikhail Barskov signed a contract with a Dutch company Mammoet Transport BV for raising the sunken nuclear-powered Kursk submarine. Judging by what deputy prime minister Ilya Klebanov told us about the operation, despite the change of the contractor, the project itself remained almost unchanged.
