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The ‘Nord-Ost’ tragedy gradually fades away into insignificance, and now it seems as if it did not really happen at all in Moscow, and Lord knows how long ago it all was. Repairs to the Moscow bearing plant’s theatrical center are in full swing, and the show goes on. Everything is A-OK!

Meanwhile, many mysteries about the tragedy still remain out of the public eye. One of these mysteries is the main reason as to why there were so many deaths: 129 people.

During the first days after the tragedy, the media discussed the topic in every way possible. They fingered various types of gases, and sprinkled terms about, but even back then many experts drew attention to the fact that someone was specifically leading the public away from the true causes of peoples’ deaths. Every now and then another exotic theory would pop up in the pro-Kremlin media, or among the ‘loyalist’ journalists. One such theory was that the hostages died of “acute depletion and as a result of metabolic imbalances.” Another was that people died from “an allergic reaction caused by the mixing of the gas with ammonia vapors in the supersaturated atmosphere of the auditorium,” while yet another theory was that they simply “had not worked out the right dosage.” If readers and viewers were to look closely at these theories, and examine them, they might start believing that there were only external factors that led to the deaths of 129 hostages, or in other words: fate. It is simply how everything worked out, s--- happens and all. We sure wished it could have turned out better, but that is the way things go. Sorry. But look how many we did save!

There are participants in these events, however, that do not share the position of the semiofficial media.

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By Elena Ryabinina

A view of the problem

We offer for your consideration the story of two former hostages from ‘Nord-Ost’, and their further adventures, as written by a close relative. Members of the Citizen’s Cooperative human rights organization sent the following material to the editorial offices of MXG Chronicles.

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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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