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Photo: Gary Gnidovic
Pavel Tokarchuk of Russian Ministries' Moscow office points out the spot where many of the adult male hostages were taken to be shot during the Beslan school siege. After each victim was killed, the next in line was forced to throw the body out the second floor window.
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Related Elsewhere: CT's full coverage of Russia is available online, as is "The God Who Lives and Works and Plays in Russia," the article that corresponds to the photo essay. Gary Gnidovic's essay and the accompanying photo essay on the Amazon Basin are also online. BBC's country profile of Russia is a good resource on the regions of Russia, including North Ossetia. The fragility of religious freedom in Russia has been "of consistent concern" in the Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (2005). The USCIRF has a transcript of a roundtable discussion "Assessing U.S. Human Rights Policy Towards Russia," a press release on the increasing religious intolerance, and has an opinion article on the difficulties that face evangelicals in Putin's Russia. Russia put non-Orthodox Christians at the top of its list of security threats. In September 2006, the Russian Justice Ministry drafted a law on "Counteracting Illegal Missionary Activity." U.S. News and World Report has an article on the situation of missionaries in Siberia.