Cruiser is not needed?

Destiny forgotten all the cruiser "Murmansk", ended their way off the coast of Norway on Christmas night, 1994, again interested. Norwegian media for a week is about the scandal, which began after the experts of Veolia and the environmental organization Bellona found that the equipment inside the sunken cruiser contain radioactive and poisonous substances. Fourteen years before Battlestar lies on the polar continental shelf off the coast of the island of Sora, the Norwegian authorities have assured the local residents that the remains of the warship harmless. And now, like a bolt from the blue - the contents of the "Murmansk" (and inside the ship are about 500 tons of trash from the remnants of equipment) can be extremely dangerous for the aquatic environment and the residents of the village, located close by. The government has begun discussions on this topic - what to do and who is to blame? The authorities of the local municipality of Oslo require decisive action to remove the "ecological bomb" from its territory. But what to do with the rusty remains of the Soviet cruiser, yet no one knows.

The light cruiser pr. 68 bis of the "Murmansk" laid at the plant in Severodvinsk №402 January 24, 1953 came to the Northern Fleet of the USSR October 6, 1955 Has participated in naval exercises. In the spring of 1970, during the exercise "Ocean" the commander of the Northern Fleet Admiral S.M.Lobov cruiser "Murmansk" manages the Navy in the North Atlantic. From November 1970 to August 1971 while in the area of military operations, perform combat missions to assist the armed forces of Egypt. In 1981, he took part in the exercise "Zapad-81". December 1, 1989 decommissioned, placed on the sludge in the Kola Bay. In July 1992, disarmed and expelled from the Navy. In 1994 he sold the Indian private company for cutting metal. December 24, 1994 when towing in heavy storm thrown on the rocks off the coast of Norway.