From http://www.newsru.com/russia/19apr2007/nordost.html

Victims of the act of terror at Dubrovka intend to demand a criminal case be opened, since, in their opinion, a whole host of victims were not provided with the necessary first aid.

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From RIA Novosti 

The European Court of Human Rights accepted for study a complaint from 58 victims of the act of terror in the theatrical center at Dubrovka, according to a report made to RIA ‘News’ by Igor Trunov, the plaintiffs’ lawyer.

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When people in Russia wish to describe a false report that demonstrates the ignorance of the one who is speaking, they use the expression: "a spreading cranberry". D.N. Ushakov’s Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language states that this expression “came from a description of Russia by a superficial French author, in which  he wrote that he sat under the shadow of majestic cranberry”.

Extraordinary events give rise to a mass of rumors.  One of such event was the seizure of hostages in the theatrical center on Dubrovka in October of 2002.

I will not speak about the confusion during these events, or about mistakes made in names, surnames, or addresses of the victims.  Today I wish to talk about something else: about unscrupulous journalists.

Here are several examples.

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By Mikhail Trepashkin    

27.03.2007

CHÅCHÅNPRÅSS

Only someone with Down’s syndrome and brain syphilis could declare that I had divulged information that was a state secret of the Russian Federation.  Further, they hold forth that I was guilty of betraying the Motherland, of treason. 

I am accused of a crime, in that two months before the seizure of hostages at Dubrovka I warned the FSB via a former colonel of the FSB’s anti-crime unit, V.V. Shebalin, that acts of terror were being prepared in Moscow!

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