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To: SOROS who wrote (202)	9/11/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: SOROS	of 1151

BBC- London - 09/11/98 The conscipt is reported to have locked himself in a nuclear-powered submarine. A Russian sailor has shot dead eight crew members and injured several others before barricading himself inside a nuclear-powered submarine of the Northern Fleet in the naval base at Skalisty, near Murmansk, in the north of Russia. The 19-year-old conscript sailor had earlier been detained on punishment charges, but broke out from his quarters, seized the guard's automatic rifle, and opened fire. After the shooting he locked himself up in a compartment of the submarine, which is unarmed and docked at the port. Officers have been negotiating with him and a special commando unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has also been sent to the base. Officials at the Northern Fleet and at the FSB declined to comment. Spokesmen at naval headquarters in Moscow and at the Defence Ministry said they were aware of the reports of the shooting and were investigating them. The Commander in Chief of the Russian navy, Vladimir Kuroyedov, is reported to have gone to the scene to investigate the incident. The Murmansk region is base for dozens of Soviet-era submarines, many of them nuclear-powered, which rarely put to sea for want of fuel and supplies. The BBC Moscow correspondent says that attacks of this sort are frequent in Russia's under-fed and demoralised military units, where young conscripts are routinely subjected to brutal bullying by older conscripts, leading to suicides and desertions. Over the past 12 months, 15 servicemen were killed in incidents at bases in Russia's remote regions. Just last Saturday, the Northern Fleet suffered another incident of mutiny when five sailors from the ethnic region of Dagestan killed a fellow guard at a nuclear installation on the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya, and took 48 hostages, including dozens of schoolchildren. They were later overpowered.

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