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    Reuters: Rig Capsizes off Russia’s Far East coast

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An oil drilling rig has capsized off Russia’s Far East coast, leaving four dead and about 50 crew members missing in freezing waters.

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Reuters: Rig Capsizes off Russia’s Far East coast

A drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a winter storm, leaving more than 50 dead or missing in the icy Sea of Okhotsk.

Emergency officials said the crew of an icebreaker and tugboat rescued 14 workers alive from the jack-up rig, the 'Kolskaya',  owned by Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka , a unit of state-owned Zarubezhneft.  HERE