One can just toss this severe remark out there into the ether, just as President Medvedev did when he said: «We will certainly do everything in order to catch these freaks, these villains,» who the day before carried out suicide bombings in Vladikavkaz. But as the Russian people can see, between these words and the Kremlin’s security guarantees lays a deep precipice.

This precipice is filling up with the corpses of the killed, with the blood, pain, and anger of the injured, and everyone else who one way or another has come into contact with the horror of this ruin.

There is neither security, nor those democratic freedoms that were taken away from the people under grandiloquent declarations about liquidating terrorism.

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It is the sixth year that the calendar page pauses intolerably long on the terrible date of September 1^st, and Galina Sagityanovna's family lights a memorial candle. Her grandson Zaur Vladimirovich Gutnov, who died at the hands of terrorists, was born in Maikuduk, Kazakhstan. These days grandma accompanies Zaur's younger brother, first-grader Valera, to Karaganda School #35.  Galina Gutnova will attend the newly rebuilt Beslan School #1.  The tragedy has divided this family's life into «before the terror act» and «after».

A children's Golgotha

One cannot fail to remember.  Accomplices of Shamil Basaev did not err in their selection of a date for their monstrous crime, the beginning of the school year. There had been terror acts before Beslan, and after it, but this remains one of most ruthless and grotesque actions in the history of world terrorism.

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Pushed around on Triumph Square, members of the European Parliament prepare their report

The experience MEPs received on Triumph Square during a demonstration in support of constitutional Article 31 will provide the basis for an adjustment in EU policy towards Russia. As explained in GZT.RU, the EU delegation that visited the demonstration received many impressions, and is currently discussing what form their report to the EU Parliament, on what they witnessed, will take.

On September 1st, Thiys Berman, representative of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee, shared with GZT.RU his impressions of the Triumph Square demonstration in Moscow, which had been organized by the opposition the day before. A member of the Dutch Socialist Party, who together with his colleagues was in the center of the events, told about the force brought to bear by the Russian police.

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On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized a school in Beslan. On the third day the hostages were freed. 336 people, most of them children, were killed. Six years later, Beslan preserves the destroyed school, is raising funds for the treatment of victims, and doe not expect any help from Russian authorities.

«Among the hostages in the school Muslims were also killed»

Beslan, high noon, School lane takes us to the ruins of School No. 1. Over the course of these years the destruction has become even more pronounced. The gymnasium, where they kept the hostages and where many were killed, they taped up photographs, children's drawings, and poetry. The wooden floor has a large black hole where the bomb that was hanging overhead exploded on September 3rd. Black charred beams under the roof are a reminder of the terrible fire. A broken dormer window and a bent basketball hoop are confirmation of one of the versions of the stories the hostages tell about the explosions being triggered by a shot from a neighboring apartment building, in which were located special troops. The huge windows, through which jumped children, tormented by thirst, and ran not for cover, but to a water fountain on Sept. 3rd, 2004.  There they fell, slain in the crossfire.

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Interfax-Russia.ru — The head of North Ossetia, Teimuraz Mamsurov said that there is still no law in Russian concerning the status of citizens who are victims of terrorist acts.

The North Ossetian president made this statement, while addressing reporters during a visit to the All-Caucasus youth educational Camp Mashuk-2010 in Pyatigorsk on August 25th.

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On September 3rd in Moscow there will be events marking a Day of Solidarity in the fight against terrorism, according to the Public Relations Committee of the capital city. A federal law established the Memorial Day, titled: Days of military glory (victorious days) of Russia. It is dedicated to the tragic events of September in Beslan.

On September 1st, 2004, a group of militants seized a city school. There were 334 victims slain in the tragedy, including 186 children.

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