This evening the nation heard the first words from President Putin since the loss of the whole crew. Last night he had a 6 hour long meeting with the relatives of the lost crew. Russian TV given sole access did not broadcast any of the exchanges between the anguished families and their leader. But in a video obtained of a weekend meeting between relatives and the deputy prime minister, proof of how the authorities dealt with one angry mother. The woman official behind her is caught brandishing a syringe which she apparently applies to the woman's clothes.
Today there is much more anger.
I believe our authorities showed they consider ordinary people simply worthless. From now on no mother will allow her son to serve in the Russian armed forces. Anastasia Kublikova is one of several women mourning their grandsons in the region of Kursk western Russia after which the submarine was named. Twenty-one year old Roman Kublikov was the youngest crew member to die on the submarine. His grandmother said she hasn't slept since she heard of the accident, she still can't believe he won't be coming back.