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Sergei Vasilyev, the CEO of Video International, Alexander Akopov of Amedia and Cosmos Film, and Vladimir Grigoriev of Rospechat attended the cremation and viewed the opened casket of Lesin and confirmed that it was Lesin before the cremation ceremony.[59]