Around the World: Russia

Terror victims remembered

Survivors and victims' relatives gathered yesterday to remember 130 hostages who died at a Moscow theater seven years ago. Some 200 people laid flowers outside the building and released 130 balloons into the wintry gray sky. More than 800 people were held hostage for nearly three days by militants from Chechnya. Nearly all the hostages who died succumbed to a narcotic gas used to knock out the hostage-takers before soldiers stormed the theater.