Consulting engineer known for his work on nuclear safety who was never afraid to take on such a powerful industry
September 2018
First look review
Kursk: The Last Mission review – devastating drama tackles Russian sub tragedy
Thomas Vinterberg’s skillful recreation of the 2000 disaster that saw 118 men die is a film that bristles with rage and sadness
January 2018
The most exciting action and thriller films of 2018
Benicio del Toro’s Sicario is set loose in Mexico, Robert Pattinson rides off into the sunset and Robert Redford breaks out of Alcatraz in a canoe
August 2012
Theatre blog
Can you recreate the experience of immersive theatre on film?
Matt Trueman: As the new film of Sound and Fury's Kursk reveals, capturing live theatre on video is tough – even more so when it's immersive, interactive or promenade
March 2010
Kursk
Young Vic, London Immersive theatre is an overused term, but the remarkable Kursk pours cold water on the imitators, writes Lyn Gardner
November 2008
Russian submarine: 'It's a terrible blow to their idea of naval resurgence'
Tom Parfitt reports on the political repercussions after 20 sailors were killed on board a submarine
September 2003
Minister blames carelessness for Russian submarine disaster
The Russian defence minister, Sergei Ivanov, blamed "frivolous" Russian carelessness yesterday for the death of nine crew members after their nuclear submarine sank off the coast of north-west Russia.
August 2003
Russian sub sinks with crew aboard
Two dead and seven missing in icy waters as ghosts of Kursk tragedy return to haunt Putin.
Kursk families demand new inquiry
Investigators' expert evidence defied by conclusion of report to protect navy's top brass, says lawyer.
'We want to ensure the country does not forget what happened'
Anna Soloreva still vividly recalls her late husband, Lt Capt Vitali Solorev, leaving for his last mission crippled by a sense of foreboding.
September 2002
Families fight government to force Kursk prosecutions
The families of the 118 sailors killed in the Kursk submarine will appeal against the Russian government's decision not to prosecute anyone for the "negligence" that caused the disaster.
August 2002
Fire down below
Peter Truscott and Robert Moore give very different accounts of the sinking of the Kursk - but both agree that the submarine tragedy reveals the problems that beset Russian military culture
Two years after the Kursk submarine disaster left 118 Russian seamen dead, the government yesterday ruled out the possibility that extraneous factors caused the sinking.
October 2001
Kursk bodies returned to families
More bodies recovered from Kursk
Kursk comes home to heroes' salute
The wreck of the Kursk begins its journey home
Kursk successfully raised
Kursk divers wrestle with cables and storms
September 2001
Kursk salvage decried as Putin's face-saver
Even the victims' relatives are no longer anxious to see the submarine raised
