Village church refused to funeral ceremony for a 'Nord-Ost' hostage

On December 31^st (sic: October 31^st, 2002), in the city of Zhukovsky, a funeral ceremony for resident Dmitry Lavrov took place. Lavrov was a hostage in the theatrical center who was slain during the crisis.

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Russian Aid Fund http://www.rusfond.ru/panushkin.html?id=7

Today we are publishing personal information on the Dubrovka hostages. Our regular readers have been calling up the Fund and asking that we put together and print this list. Their feelings are understandable, as they are motivated by compassion and a desire to at least in some way to express their sympathy with these bereaved families. They know about the existence of a general assistance account that opened in Moscow, but doubt its effectiveness, and so they wish to directly help victims of the terrorist attack without intermediaries.

And this is a legitimate desire, but how can an ordinary person with normal mentality and no personal disaster directly express his condolences and sympathy to strangers who have found themselves under this steamroller of national tragedy? By hanging banners out in the street, or buying time on TV or space in a newspaper? I have been tirelessly reminding you that I am not against the ‘Kommersant’ PR campaign, and those who might wish to do so may do this, but most participants in that campaign share with us nothing but a name, and they basically do not keep us informed.

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During storming of ‘Nord-Ost’ one terrorist managed to set off a grenade

In response to reader’s calls, ‘Izvestiya’ is publishing answers from the former commander of the ‘Alfa’ anti-terrorism unit, Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin, Hero of the Soviet Union and major general, reserves. Here are some of them:

Q: There are persistent rumors going around the capital that the operational headquarters ‘overdosed’, releasing 5 times more gas into the theatrical center than recommended by chemists. Is this true?

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