Nikolay Lyubimov speaks with the thoughtful calm of a man who's been granted ten more years of life than he should have had.
"They shot the sleeping Chechens," he says, "but I think they should have left them alive to prosecute".
It is not the expression of trauma and vengefulness I was expecting from someone who experienced the horror of Nord-Ost first hand.
Now 81, he was working as a security guard at a Moscow theatre a decade ago, when Chechen fighters burst in, and took nearly everyone in the building hostage. At least 850 people.
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