Putin's Sept. 2 meeting with a group of Beslan victims' relatives - as remembered by the relatives themselves - at PravdaBeslana.ru (in Russian):

Azamat Sabanov: "About responsibility of Patrushev, Nurgaliyev and all security structures. They should be punished in some way, shouldn't they? They at least should submit resignation letters, as humans, because they haven't fulfilled their duties."

Putin: "Yes, as humans, they should have done so. If I were them, this is what I'd have done."