In Moscow, a group of armed Chechens on Wednesday evening captured several hundred hostages in the theater center at Dubrovka during the presentation of the musical Nord-Ost. Terrorists - from 20 to 50 people. It is reported that they are commanded by the field commander Movsar Baraev. The main requirement is to stop the war in Chechnya. The terrorists mined the building and threaten to blow it up in case of assault. When capturing, terrorists opened fire into the air.

A group of armed Chechens under the command of Movsar Baraev, who seized several hundred hostages on Wednesday evening at the Dubrovka Theater Center in Moscow, threatened to blow up the building if they have not been fulfilled for a week to withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya.

According to updated data, in Moscow in the building of the theater center, an armed group holds hostage about 700 people, including 75 foreign citizens. This was announced tonight by the official representative of the FSB of Russia Sergey Ignatchenko. According to him, 37 people are released, one hostage is killed. According to Interfax agency, a 20 -year -old girl died on Wednesday evening - when capturing a building. The terrorists allowed her body to take out her body.

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Dmitry Volchek is talking with the former chairman of the Supreme Council of Russia Ruslan Khasbulatov. Dmitry Volchek: You, together with Aslambek Aslakhanov, tried to establish contact with the terrorists, as the agencies report, Movsar Baraev refused to talk with you - how did this all happen? Ruslan Khasbulatov: Yes. We spent the whole night there at the headquarters, I also went right away, learning about it, in order to influence the situation in some way.

The Russian television company NTV said that in the theater center in the southeast of Moscow, where there are hostages captured by the armed group, two powerful explosions were heard. The authorities confirmed that the terrorists who took the hosts several hundred people killed one of the women's contexts. According to Interfax agency, a 20 -year -old girl died last night - when capturing the building of the theater center.

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Moscow theaters do not plan to cancel performances in connection with the capture of terrorists using the spectators of the musical Nord-Ost. “We are in solidarity with our friends from Nord -Ost and experience their misfortune as our own - we have the same spectator, they are our colleagues,” said Boris Krasnov, the producer of another musical - “42nd Street”, in which the Broadway actors play.

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In Moscow, a group of armed Chechens continues to hold several hundred hostages captured on Wednesday evening during the performance in the theater center on Dubrovka. Shots are periodically heard in the building, but, according to the authorities, there are no victims of the dead and seriously wounded among the hostages. One of the hostages, with which the Radio Liberty managed to contact, turned to the authorities with a request not to storm.