The acting, especially Peter Ustinov as Nero, is quite over the top.

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It is not Vladimir Putin, nor the Media Minister, Mikhail Lesin, nor the head of the Federal Security Service, Nikolai Patrushev, nor the prosecutor-general Vladimir Ustinov.

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But Mr Ustinov admits that the inquiry will eventually have to focus on the bow of the Kursk - still to be removed from the seabed.

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