The cross at the site of the sinking of the Kursk submarine. File photoLONDON, Jan 14, Zhanna Manukyan.The British Ministry of Defense does not have records that the Royal Navy submarines were in the area of the crash of the Russian submarine «Kursk» in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, RIA Novosti was told in the secretariat of the command of the British Navy. Previously, Vyacheslav Popov, commander of the Northern Fleet at the time of death » Kursk» in August 2000, said in an interview with the agency that the submarine sank as a result of a collision with a NATO submarine that came too close to it. According to reports in Russian and foreign media, in the area of the exercises of the Northern Fleet in August 2000, there were nuclear submarines Memphis and Toledo of the US Navy, as well as Splendid of the British Navy. The News24 portal reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense requested the Pentagon to inspect these two submarines, but the Russian military department refused this and stated that all submarines «are in working order.» The same response followed from London, the portal reported.London did not find documents about the request of Russia to check the nuclear submarine after the Kursk The UK Department of Defense told the agency that this information can only be released by making a special request under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency sent a corresponding request to the secretariat of the command of the Navy. «As for your request to confirm that» some nuclear submarine of the Royal Navy of Great Britain was in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, «I can confirm that the Ministry of Defense there are no records that satisfy this part of your request,» the written response sent to RIA Novosti says.The Norwegian Ministry of Defense stated that the reasons for the death of the Kursk had long been established. In addition, in accordance with Article 16 of the Freedom of Information Act, the secretariat sent RIA Novosti data from the archive of official records of the meeting of the British Parliament dated November 14, 2000. On that day, European Affairs Minister Keith Vaz, in response to a question from a Member of Parliament about reports of British submarine involvement in the Kursk crash, said that the then Minister of Defense of the Kingdom, Jeff Hoon, had already assured his Russian counterpart that British submarines in there was no crash site.» The Minister of State for International Affairs made no representations to Russia in connection with claims that a British submarine was involved in the Kursk disaster. The Minister of Defense, who oversaw this matter, had already assured the Russian Minister of Defense that the Royal Military the Navy was not in the area when the submarine «Kursk» sank, — follows from the archives of the Parliament. explosion of a torpedo on board, followed by detonation of the ammunition. />The Kremlin refused to comment on the version of Admiral Popov about the death of the Kursk