In the US there was a premiere of ‘I Admit Guilt’ by Natalia Pelevina. The play is dedicated to the hostage seizure that took place at Moscow’s Dubrovka Square in 2002. Attending the premiere were even some of the relatives of those killed during the terrorist attack.

The whole show revolves around a dialogue between two women — a hostage and a suicide bomber. “This is a play about a woman’s view of the terrible events, and about how, in spite of civilization’s barriers, we really have so much in common,” the director told RIA Novosti.

Natalia Pelevina admits that one of the main characters she created — the journalist Natasha, who by chance found herself among the hostages — was heavily influenced by the personality of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known journalist who wrote political exposés and in her activities was very interested in the Chechen problem. According to investigators, leaders of the Chechen criminal underworld ordered her murder. The heroine on the play also tries to understand the worldview of the female terrorist who is preparing herself for death.

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Alexei Margiyev, a renowned historian and archivist from the Republic of South Ossetia, has finished his latest work on the modern history of Ossetia. It is dedicated to the September 2004 tragedy in Beslan.

Alexei Margiyev, born in 1927, is the author of numerous works on the history of Ossetia. Among them are the scientific, educational, and journalistic articles. An example of the latter is his “Day 888 of the Catastrophe — the halted South Ossetia genocide”.

In his book, “The pain and grief of Beslan”, he includes materials from the press on the terrorist seizure of Beslan School ¹ 1 in September 2004.

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A bomb was discovered on May 6th in a school yard in a residential area of the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. According to a clarification from the press service of the republic's national security committee, a package with a steel paint can containing an explosive device was found by a school caretaker.

He reported his discovery to law enforcement authorities, and sappers arrived on the scene to defuse the bomb.

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A meeting between the head of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, and the 'Beslan Mothers' organization, which represents victims of the September 2004 terrorist attack, never took place.

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