Some of the daily newspapers have begun speculating about why the accident happened, while the official paper of the Ministry of Defence is reporting the bare facts of the incident.

BBC: Russian media asks 'What happened?'

And the report it does carry avoids all speculation as to the cause of the incident, simply giving the bare facts as to the submarine's details and what the Ministry has so far reported.

BBC: Russian media asks 'What happened?'

Mr May prefers to concentrate on the bare facts, as they affected the development of the fiction.

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