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It is difficult to classify the outcome of the last attempt to launch the Bulava missile, but it definitely was not a success. The official version is that no actual launch was planned this time and the Dmitry Donskoy submarine,...

This time the missile dont seem to have left the launch tube.
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20091030_3645.php

That global security article may be a little misleading:

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20091028/156626320.html

According to the RIA article, the Donskoi was only supposed to perform final checks and was never meant to actually fire the missile on this particular outing.

I wouldn't quite trust RIA Novosti in this case - the story about "final checks" seems pretty contrived. As I understand, some reports say that there was, indeed, an attempt to launch, but something didn't work at the very last moment.