Washington D.C. - "Underneath a portrait of Czar Peter the Great, the Russian Ambassador to the United States presented two U.S. officers with the Order of Friendship for their parts in rescuing submariners trapped underwater off the Kamchatka peninsula in August...

"Both men and their units joined Russian Navy and Air Force, British Royal Navy and Japanese Navy personnel in the rescue effort. A Royal Navy remotely operated vehicle - the Scorpio - cut the Russian sub free. The craft rose to the surface with just six hours of oxygen left, according to published accounts."

You can read the rest of the story here at Military.com. Yuri and I recently heard Admiral Gary Roughead, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, speak in Seattle and address the rescue of the Russian sub crews by American forces as an example of U.S.-Russia military cooperation. Hopefully this is the start of a positive trend, burying the Cold War legacy once and for all.