In any Russian terror act the terrorists and the government are always to blame. Only the public is ever blameless. In this case the terrorists sacrificed themselves, so now the government works around the clock to deal with the aftermath while the public sits on the Internet and discusses it all.

The above paragraph, of course, was written to attract an angry reader's attention. So now that you have made it this far, I will try to explain.

Around noon on Monday the entire center of Moscow was packed with special vehicles. The wounded had already been transported to hospitals, the dead put into plastic bags, and a pretty little helicopter had already departed from Lubyanka Square. Meanwhile, an interesting topic was raised on LiveJournal.

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Holy Week has begun. I received a letter from colleagues in Chechnya. They write: «People died. We have always condemned terrorism, it cannot be justified. We express our condolences to the bereaved families of the slain, and all the victims. It is unfortunate that we cannot send these words to them directly.» I can only join this letter.

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Russia's Constitutional Court declared that verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in civil cases are grounds for revising the decisions of Russian courts, according to the Constitutional Court's website.

According to the resolution of the Constitutional Court, ECHR decisions are binding on Russia, and the state is not only obliged by the Constitution to make payments to persons whose rights have been violated, but to also provide legal remedies.

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Uribes: the Spanish model for supporting terror victims may be an example

Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, general director of the Spanish interior ministry's Department of Terror Victim Support, discussed the Spanish model of state support to terror victims in an exclusive interview with the 'RIA Novosti' news agency.

- Recently you participated in 5th International Congress on Terror Victims, which was held in Colombia. What, in your opinion, was the most remarkable event of the forum?

I would say that it was certainly participation by terror victims in the Congress. More than 1,600 people, who were in one way or another affected by various acts of terror, attended at that time. There were people from Colombia itself, which had for decades suffered from the depredations of FARC (ed: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). There were victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th, 2001. There were some survivors from one of the bloodiest attacks in Northern Ireland, in Omaha (Ireland). There were many Spaniards, who were victims of Basque terrorism and the terrorist attacks on March 11th, 2004.

Felipe, Prince of Asturias, as well as his wife, and the presidents of Colombia and Mexico, attended the Congress. The latter closed the Congress. These persons also lent their gravitas to the event.

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