14th anniversary of Dubrovka terror act

Today marks the 14^th anniversary of the day when on October 23, 2002, militants took hostage 916 people in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre and demanded to withdraw Russian troops from Chechnya. The day of October 26, 2002, is considered to be the date of the end of the rescue operation, in which 130 hostages were killed and more than 700 others were injured. In Moscow, events for the 14^th anniversary of the terror act are scheduled for October 26.

The "Nord-Ost", a public organization promoting the protection of victims to terror acts, scheduled for October 26 an event to honour the memory of the victims to be held in the square near the Dubrovka Theatre Centre. Victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre and other terror acts committed in Russia are invited to take part in the event.

Today, on the day of the terror act, the Dubrovka Theatre Centre has hosted an event for children, not dedicated to the mourning date.

"We came with our children to the event. And we are extremely surprised that it is the very theatre, where the disastrous terror act occurred 14 years ago. It is very strange that today, the children are brought here," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a married couple who came up to the memorial to victims of the terror act, located in the territory of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.