Moscow remembers victims of terrorist attacks

MOSCOW, September 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Commemorative ceremonies will be
held in Moscow this Saturday, on Anti-Terrorism Solidarity Day. Muscovites
will remember innocent victims of attacks committed by terrorists in the
capital in the past years.
Hundreds of Muscovites will gather at the places of attacks to pay
tribute to the memory of people killed by terrorists, for whom a human
life is just a small change in a political argument, an official at the
Moscow Mayor's Office told Itar-Tass.
Meetings and flower laying ceremonies at memorials will take place
near the monument to the Beslan victims at Solyanka Street, on the square
before the Theatre Centre at Dubrovka, near the metro stations Park
Kultury, Lubyanka, Avtozavodskaya and Rizhskaya, at the underground
crossing at the metro station Pushkinskaya, at Guryanov Street,
Kashirskoye Highway and near the National hotel. The day before, a
commemorative ceremony took place at Volokolamskoye Highway at the site of
the explosion on the airfield in Tushino.
The first terrorist attack was committed in Moscow on August 31, 1999,
at Manezhnaya Square in the large shopping centre Okhotny Ryad. The bomb
explosion injured 41 people. One of them, a woman, died. In the autumn of
the same year, two apartment buildings were blown up. Acts of terror took
place in Moscow in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011. The
attacks killed more than 570 people.