autonomous republics in two thousand and four chechen terrorists attacked a school in the town of beslan in northeast asia they took more than eleven hundred students and their teachers hostage holding them in the school gym for more than three days without food and water. the attackers demanded their withdrawal of all russian troops from chechnya the release of imprisoned chechen fighters and putin's resignation. of the boss of the house absolutely it was total chaos absolute chaos and if i can remember that everyone on the streets of beslan was completely helpless during the storming of the school. no one knew what to do there were cases where intelligence officers flew back out after an hour for fear of taking responsibility for. a firefight between the attackers and russian commandos ended in the storming of the building. the operation was badly planned during the fighting and the home ceiling collapsed. the images of children fleeing in their underwear shook the world. in the end three hundred thirty four people were killed more than half of them children. as they had done after the

autonomous republics in two thousand and four chechen terrorists attacked a school in the town of beslan in northeast asia they took more than eleven hundred students and their teachers hostage holding them in the school gym for more than three days without food and water the attackers demanded their withdrawal of all russian troops from chechnya and the release of imprisoned chechen fighters and putin's resignation. the boss of the house absolutely it was total chaos absolute chaos i can remember that everyone on the streets of beslan was completely helpless during the storming of the school. no one knew what to do. there were cases where intelligence officers flew back out after an hour for fear of taking responsibility for. a firefight between the attackers and russian commandos ended in the storming of the building. the operation was badly planned during the fighting and the whole ceiling collapsed. the images of children fleeing in their underwear shook the world. in the end three hundred thirty four people were killed more than half of them children. as they had done after the stor

after beslan putin rolled back several reforms dating from the one nine hundred ninety s. governors of russia's autonomous republics would no longer be elected by the people but appointed directly by the president himself was another step back towards an authoritarian state. after the tragedy many sought solace and support in the church. following the collapse of the soviet union the russian orthodox church had increasingly filled the ideological vacuum. or chain of the committees some of us many people in russia were being baptized some days there were forty people at once within the seal is. better than. i know the most important task is to care for human souls if you and with the many consider themselves orthodox believers but in reality they do not live in an orthodox way you but i was alone. today more than one hundred fifty million people in the u.s.s.r. as a successor states are members of the russian orthodox church. which is low should those who should be the end of the numbers have risen from one thousand nine hundred percent to seventy five percent in the last t