Russian blogs are getting a lot of traffic.
Try Babelfish; the translations are rough, but the meaning gets through.
And here is an english-russian blog.
The Moscow Times (Interfax)
Prima-News (independent)
Izvestia’s editor has quit (by request?)
Igor Yakovenko, general secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists, condemned the shakeup at Izvestia and said Shakirov was fired for doing his job.
“As the editor of the newspaper, Shakirov spoke out about Beslan crisis in the way any professional journalist should and did not lie,” he said.
Oleg Panfilov, director of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, said Shakirov left Izvestia because he had failed to toe the Kremlin line and had made the newspaper’s coverage too explicit.
“He failed to catch the mood of those with power, while the other newspapers did and are now working without any problems,” Panfilov said.
And the Moscow bureau chief of TV cable channel Al Arabiya has been detained.
The main station is in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Amro Abdel Hamid covered Beslan and is a Russian citizen.
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From this article,
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/03/1093939149739.html?oneclick=true
I quote..
“..Muslims represent about one-third of the population in this region of North Ossetia.
The rest are mostly Christian, creating at times an uneasy mix. When a group of Muslims from nearby villages offered themselves as hostages in exchange for the students, officials discouraged them from coming to Beslan for fear of stirring violence.
I read that. I thought perhaps the Chechan students were too far away to make their request valid. Given the tension, your explanation makes sense.
It occurred to me the students understood exactly what they were offering - their lives.
I also read there have been demonstrations in various cities and towns in Russia.I am aware there are refugee camps in Ossetia, nearly 1/2 million are living there, afraid to return, that the Muslim population in Russia is about 70 million.