Moscow commemorates "Nord-Ost" victims

Today, Moscow remembers the victims of the tragedy in "Dubrovka" Theatrical Centre - six years ago during performance terrorists took almost one thousand actors and spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages.

People laid flowers to the monument "To Terror Victims", installed opposite the Culture House of the Bearings Factory, and lit candles in the place of the tragedy.

The "Caucasian Knot" has already reported that on June 1, 2007, it became known that the investigation of the circumstances of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre was suspended. The reason was announced as the impossibility to establish the whereabouts of those accused.

The memorable meeting will be held on October 26, on the anniversary day of the storm of the Theatrical Centre. The action will start at midday on the square in Melnikov Street, as the Prefecture of the South-Eastern Administrative District of Russian capital has announced.

The ITAR-TASS reports that relatives, friends and survived hostages of Dubrovka, victims of Beslan tragedy, explosions of apartment houses in Guryanov Street and Kashirskoe Highway, aircrafts Moscow-Volgograd and Moscow-Sochi, apartment house in Volgodonsk and skyscrapers in the USA were invited to take part in the event.

On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the tragedy it became known to "Novaya Gazeta" that the European Court had made terms with the Government of Russia and made confidential all the documents forwarded to Strasbourg in reply to victims' complaints.

It means that neither applicants nor their defenders can now make any public comments on the arguments and position of the Government in the "Nord-Ost" case. The newspaper reminds that today in Strasbourg decisions on two complaints lodged by former hostages and relatives of the casualties in the Theatrical Centre are expected.

All the documents on the "Nord-Ost" case submitted both by applicants and representatives of Russian Government have been in open access for years. The Government has submitted no classified or confidential documents. Nevertheless, the Russian representative in Strasbourg (for that moment it was Veronica Milinchuk) addressed the President of the High Chamber of the European Court with a request to make the "Nord-Ost" materials classified under the motive that the investigation on the terror act case is not finished.

The newspaper writes that in fact the investigation has been suspended for almost two years already. The latest investigatory action with participation of the victims was held in January 2007. Then, the Prosecutor's Office tried to force the most energetic public activists, who stood for the acquaintance with the materials of the criminal case, to sign the non-disclosure statement.