Russia Incorporated
December 17, 2007 ·
Features, Magazine, David Satter
EDITOR'S NOTE:
EDITOR'S NOTE:
February 1977
Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime
ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2004, the children of School Number One in Beslan, a town of 30,000 in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, gathered to go in for the first day of school. Suddenly, the air was filled with machine gun fire. A military truck pulled up and two dozen men with Kalashnikov assault…