There’s an event that’s been haunting Vladimir Putin for the past two decades. It’s not his past in the KGB, nor the multiple ‘mysterious deaths’ that seem to afflict those who go against him.
It’s 334 dead Russian civilians – 186 of them children – who were taken hostage by Chechen and Ingush rebels in a school in Beslan, Russia.
The rescue mission that ensued – with seemingly little regard for civilian life ...