Word: savelyev
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...ardent nationalist and former rector of the St. Petersburg-based Baltic Mechanical Engineering University ( who was personally placed under sanctions by the U.S. government back in 1999 for letting Iranian students in on sensitive military-related research), Savelyev is an expert on explosions who happened to be present in Beslan during the tragedy. Later, he became a member of the official parliamentary investigative commission on Beslan, which has yet to present its report...
...basic explosion under the school gym window could not have been made by the terrorists' homemade device. In fact, he claims that none of the explosions within the first 22 seconds could have been made by the terrorists' weapons. "None of the official versions is supported by science," Savelyev insists. "They simply contradict science...
...Savelyev's findings confirm, Ella Kesayeva, Chair of the Voice of Beslan Public Committee, told TIME in a phone interview Wednesday morning, "that the authorities are as guilty in murdering our children as the terrorists," because the Kremlin-ordered assault also abruptly killed the negotiating process that could realistically get the hostages released. "Putin had our children butchered, and used the massacre to build his one-person rule of this country...
...Savelyev is a member of our commission, and we studied his view," Alexander Torshin, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council (the upper house of Russia's Parliament) and Chair of the Beslan Inquiry Commission, told the Interfax wire agency. "But we turned it down, as the facts he cites were not persuasive...
...Kesayeva entertained no hope that the authorities would accept Savelyev's findings. "They'll besmirch him, like they have been besmirching all of us for not dying along with our children," she says. Still, she believes that one day, "the Russian authorities, responsible for Beslan, will have to answer for that...