On the night of September 2, very late, around two or three o’clock, a guy entered the Beslan school. Skinny, blond, strong. He walked for a long time and quietly along the walls, looking at photographs of murdered children and the candles placed under them. Finally, only about forty minutes later, he decided to approach the few women already sitting in the hall.

The Moscow prosecutor's office has decided to grant amnesty to Nodar Kancheli, accused in the case of the collapse of the roof of a water park in Moscow in February 2004. The architect was lucky enough to fall under the amnesty announced on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Russian State Duma, according to which criminal prosecution was canceled against persons accused under articles providing for imprisonment for up to five years, as well as against people over 60 years of age.

The word “Chechnya” sounds dissonant and “is perceived by residents of the region as some kind of chopped phrase.” It turns out that it is the name, and not anything else, that prevents people from positively perceiving the image of the republic. This opinion was expressed by the President of Chechnya Alu Alkhanov. He proposed renaming the republic. The Chechens themselves never call the region Chechnya. One of the options could be the Nokhchiin Republic.

President of Iran Akhmadidjad will not give his military nuclear program to reproach the UN Security Council. He will stand to the end. For this Islamic fanatic and the equally crazy mullah standing over him, life cannot compare with death. In that case, of course, if this is the death of Martir. So say some experts in Washington. Others offer a different point of view.

Human Rights Watch has published a report alleging that there were numerous irregularities in the prosecution of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of participating in militant groups in Afghanistan and extradited to Russia in February 2004. According to HRW, they were forced to confess to blowing up a gas pipeline in Tatarstan by torturing and threatening the pregnant wife of one of the prisoners.

Dmitry Rogozin stopped hiding from journalists and for the first time in a long time named the reasons for his departure from politics. During his political “vacation,” Rogozin was busy writing a book, “Enemy of the People,” about an imaginary antagonist created by the authorities, against whom many draconian laws were directed. The politician now considers his main task to be “the reunification of the Russian people” - the population of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

The head of the Chechen government, Ramzan Kadyrov, accused the Kondopoga authorities of inaction in connection with the unrest and promised to direct the situation in a “right direction.” Representatives of the local Chechen diaspora asked the prime minister to intervene in what was happening in the city. In the republic, what is happening in the city has caused serious concern.

The case of Andrei Sychev reaches a dead end. Today, during a meeting of the Chelyabinsk Military Court, the main accused, Sergeant Alexander Sivyakov, said that he does not admit his guilt for all six episodes of violence against newly conscripts charged to him. Several victims stated that no physical violence occurred at all.

About 40 prisoners took two hostages - the head of the pre-trial detention center and his deputy - in the Chagino pre-trial detention center in the south-east of Moscow. At the same time, according to the City-FM radio station, five people were captured. Despite the obvious fact of the riot, the Federal Penitentiary Service declares that it is out of the question, although they do not deny the fact of hostage-taking.