Like a colorful mosaic that gladdens the eye and summons a smile, there is now a small lane in the botanical garden of the Stary Oskol Medical College. After approaching a bit closer to this beauty, the visitor becomes serious and pensive. He sees the inscription: «Lane of Roses, in memory of the children who died during the storming of Nord-Ost on October 26^th, 2002. Students and faculty from the college built the lane on the eve of the sixth anniversary of this terrible tragedy.»

Ten children died at ‘Nord-Ost'. What can be more awful than the death of a child? A senseless and cruel death, death at the hands of a grown up who is required by the natural order to protect and raise a child.

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Today Beslan is preparing for the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. Each is preparing in his own way: the victims are fixing up the cemetery, which they clean almost every day.

Just as five years ago these mothers got their children ready for the first school bell, now they continue what they have done for the last five years with what remained afterwards. They blow away the dust, rake the lawns, stroke and kiss the faces of their loved ones — faces etched into the marble of the grave markers.

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On August 12^th, 2009, there was a terrorist bombing in the city of Gagry in Abkhazia. Especially affected was the Samchenko family, citizens of the Russian Federation. The blast in Gagry rang out on the third day of the family's vacation, leaving Konstantin Samchenko and his son wounded by shrapnel, and his wife Antonina in grave condition with multiple fractures, burns, and shrapnel wounds.

They found themselves in dire straits far from home in the Republic of Abkhazia, without assistance from the Russian government. The Russian consul in Abkhazia came to the Gagry hospital but once, and only offered to contact families of the victims.

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Officers from the Department of Combating Extremism detained an underage Moscow resident who was preparing a series of terror acts for the capital. It was determined that the young man belongs to a neo-nazi group and has a direct connection with a series of loud explosions in the city. The neo-nazi was detained in route to the Monument of the Soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, where he was planning to set off his homemade bombs.

On Tuesday officers from the Interior Ministry's Department of Combating Extremism reported the detention of a neo-nazi who was preparing a series of terror acts in the capital.

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