By Olga Allenova

In Kommersant #115

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Обращение 89 потерпевших от теракта в Беслане было составлено по итогам трех судебных процессов

It became known yesterday that the European Court of Human Rights received a complaint from 89 victims of the Beslan terror act. The victims intend to show that their relatives were denied their right to life, and that an objection investigation and effective legal defense was denied them in their homeland.

The fifty-page complaint was sent to Strasbourg by the ‘Voice of Beslan’ organization on June 25th. Yesterday the clerk of court reported that the appeal by the residents of Beslan had been registered as #26562/07, and titled ‘Kesayeva and 88 others versus Russia’. “The complaint hasn’t yet been accepted for processing since the plaintiffs have promised to send supplementary documents,” added the European court’s chancellery.

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By Sergey Mihailych, «Novaya gazeta»

The fate of a video recording

In issue #90 of our December 1st, 2003, edition of ‘Novaya Gazeta’, we published video frame captures that came into our possession. In these the beginning of the hostage evacuation is clearly visible: hostages are carried out in the arms of special services soldiers, laid down on the steps in front of the entrance, and someone is seen injecting antidotes. Alongside this man some people in civilian clothes enter the area, with guns and white armbands.

After awhile a person is carried from the main entrance: his arms are behind his back, in handcuffs, and he is trying to hold up his head so that it does not strike the asphalt.

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«Novaya gazeta»

By Vyacheslav Izmailov

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In Novaya Gazeta, June 4th, 2007

By Yulia Latynina

The investigation will go no farther

‘Nord-Ost’, unlike Beslan, is almost an uninvestigated act of terror. Beslan took place in the Caucasus, while ‘Nord-Ost’ was in Moscow. Sitting hostage in the gymnasium of School #1 were relatives and friends, while in the theater auditorium at Dubrovka were scattered pieces of society, after which many of them, at least those who made it, once again took off in all directions.

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By Vlad Trifonov in Kommersant

The prosecutor’s office has ceased its investigation into the terror act at Dubrovka

As became known yesterday, the investigation into the circumstances of the terror act in the theatrical center on Dubrovka in Moscow, where 125 persons died, has been brought to a stop. The formal reason for this was the impossibility of determining the whereabouts of two of the terrorists’ accomplices – Gerihan Dudayev and Hassan Zakayev. In the investigators’ resolution to suspend the case, it was noted that the organizer of the terror act was Shamil Basayev, who died from his own carelessness and not as a result of an FSB special operation. Igor Trunov, who represents the victims, intends to appeal the resolution.

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Radio ‘Echo of Moscow’ news

Igor Trunov, the lawyer representing the victims of the terror act, told radio station ‘Echo of Moscow’ that the decision by the Moscow prosecutor’s office is difficult to explain. “The fact is, that there really was no investigation.” As Trunov explained, “the Moscow prosecutor’s resolution states that the investigation was being suspended because they were unable to determine the whereabouts of the accused. The document even reports that two persons are on the ‘wanted’ list.”

From another standpoint, the investigators determined that there were 52 terrorists. Forty of these were killed during the special operation, so it turns out that 12 got away. Two are on the ‘wanted’ list, but where the other 10 are is not known at all.

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