In this story, along with reliable facts, you can not do without a small fraction of logical speculation. I can assure you, justified. Because the situation in which the Snezhnogorsk Nerpa Ship Repair Plant found itself after the Russian-American agreement on the disposal of non-combatable submarines is ambiguous. Last spring, it "played" with such a range of nuances that can only be classified as undercurrents in interstate relations," grimaces " of big politics... On April 28, 1999, a message from Major Ron Alberto, a representative of the US Strategic Arms Reduction Agency, landed on the desk of Pavel Steblin, Director of the Nerpa SRZ. In it, the head of the recycling project reported that he was contacting Pavel Grigoryevich "because of potentially possible bad news": "Dear Mr. Steblin, As you probably know, the framework agreement on Joint threat reduction (meaning the "Agreement between the Russian Federation and the United States of America concerning the Safe and Secure Transportation, Storage and Destruction of Weapons and the Prevention of the Proliferation of Weapons" of June 17, 1992 - Author's note) expires on June 17, 1999. We continue to negotiate with the relevant representatives of the Russian Federation to extend this agreement, but so far without much success. If the Agreement expires, all visits of American representatives under the SSM Program (in this case, SSBN disposal, SRH infrastructure modernization, etc. - Author's note) will be suspended, and in all likelihood, contract work will also be ordered to be suspended. As you can see, this issue is very serious... I am sorry that I have to write to you on this unpleasant subject. I would be grateful in advance if you can exert any influence on your Government in order to direct negotiations on the extension of the framework Agreement on SMS in a positive direction... " Pavel Grigoryevich ordered to remove copies from the letter and familiarize the plant staff with the text. The news was re ... Read more