W. Shedd of The Accidental Russophile links to an article on the controversial statements about the 2004 Beslan school siege trial made by Leonid Roshal, a Russian doctor who became famous during the October 2002 theater siege in Moscow. W. Shedd also writes about a school teacher from Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, he used to correspond with: her perceptions of the region before the Beslan tragedy and how her life changed following it.