Fanis Ishmuratov was a turbine technician when he died aboard a sinking submarine in 2000. Last week it was reported that his son, Danis, had been killed in Ukraine. It's difficult not to see their tragedy as the tragedy of Russia under Putin.
, a submarine that sank in the Barents Sea on April 12, 2000, just weeks after Vladimir Putin’s election to the Russian presidency.
These are the soldiers and miners, roughnecks and sailors who power Russia — and are often invisible to the elites who, until recently, could enjoy entrée into the high societies of London and New York., the capital of the state of Bashkortostan, near the border with Kazakhstan. The region is home to people of Central Asian, not Russian, ethnic descent.
As a result, all 23 of the Kursk survivors died, along with the 95 shipmates who perished in the initial blast. According to Danis Ishmuratov, his father had been among those legendary survivors. His body was eventually recovered,At the time, Russian society still enjoyed a measure of openness, and the grieving families of the Kursk dead assailed Kremlin officials — including Putin himself — for failing to do more.
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