‘Nord-Ost’ organization demands criminal charges against the hostage rescue headquartersThe Russian public organization ‘Nord-Ost’ has petitioned the Prosecutor General’s office, demanding that a criminal case be initiated against members of the operational headquarters for rescue of the hostages (at Dubrovka). Heads of the organization declared this on Wednesday at a press conference, according to a correspondent from Grani.

They are accusing FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, his deputy, Vladimir Pronichev, and the chief of the special operations center, Alexander Tikhonov, as well as former Security Council secretary Vladimir Rushailo. “We won’t even rule out the president,” declared ‘Nord-Ost’ coordinator Tatiana Karpova.

The FSB knew about a possible hostage seizure from at least two sources: a continuation of Anna Politkovskaya’s investigation.

Four years and seven months after the tragedy at the theater on Dubrovka, the Moscow city prosecutor has stopped the investigation into the hostage seizure case “due to the inability of determining the location of the accused”. Supposedly a certain Derikhan Bakhayev and Hassan Zakayev are on the “wanted” list. Practice shows that this means only one thing – forget about it, no one is going to bother with this case anymore.

The main suspects were destroyed. The chief of the accused, according to the prosecutor, was Shamil Basayev, who also for technical reasons cannot tell anyone anything, and the lion’s share of guilt was assigned to him in a fiction concocted by the investigation.