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Russian newspapers pull no punches as they examine the state of the nation following last week’s tragic events in Beslan.

The president and the government come in for particular condemnation, but nobody is immune from scathing criticism, in what can be seen as a case of profound soul-searching.

Beslan, and other tragedies testify to one of our fundamental impotence cause - indifference to the squandering of human life. To us, human life is not the most precious thing. We are ready to sacrifice a huge number of people. This happened 100 years ago, and 300 years ago, and during the rule of Ivan the Terrible. Corpses floated down the Volkhov river for a week, but the state’s objective was achieved - Novgorod was forced to join Moscow. Exactly the same thing has happened now. We have lost several hundred people, but we have shown that we cannot be spoken to in that manner.

They are calling on us to unite. But the government must change its ways if we are to unite around it. You can unite around a government which at least talks to its people in a normal way, which is transparent, understandable, predictable. It is impossible to unite around the present government.

Nezavisimaya Gazeta

If the press had not been working in Beslan, the country would not have found out about this tragedy, just as it does not know about Samashki and Bamut scene of bloody battles in Chechnya. It would not have united in common grief, there would not have been any mourning - but there would have been City Day in Moscow, there would have been festivals, competitions and concerts. And the president would not have had to appear wretched and confused, as he appeared during his strange and lacklustre address to the nation, which had been waiting so long for the authorities to react. And you and I would not have been so ashamed of ourselves and of our government. And when you are not ashamed, no conclusions get drawn.

Commentary in Gazeta

There is one other sad thing that a journalist should point out - the indifference and passivity of a significant part of our public, at such critical moments in our history. During the first tragic days of September, our TV stations continued to churn out sentimental soaps, while restaurants and casinos in Moscow and other rich cities remained packed with merrymaking clients who, it turns out, couldn’t give a damn about the future of the Russian state and the security of ordinary citizens.

Much will probably depend on the behaviour of our economic elite, who have made incredible fortunes out of Gorbachev’s economic “innovations” and Yeltsin’s treating impotence. They should give some thought to the need for self-restraint and modesty. The provocative behaviour of many latter-day millionaires, the endless media reports about their purchase of sports clubs, jet planes, foreign islands and resorts and about extravagant society events prevent, like nothing else, the true consolidation of Russian society.

Krasnaya Zvezda

Why is it that so many people have cheerfully analysed the mistakes of Putin’s policies in the Caucasus, but nobody has analysed the mistakes of pseudo-liberal strategy? Why is it that repentance is demanded of Putin, but nobody intends to apologise for supporting exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky’s ravings about explosions in Moscow apartment blocks? Or did Putin also arrange Beslan? For how much longer will they call for talks with Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, whose military-political impotence has long since become an amorphous cover for terror?

There is only one conclusion to be drawn. The creation of a full-fledged civil society has ceased to be a pious dream of a handful of disillusioned intellectuals, and has become a question of life or death for the country as a whole. Either we find each other or they will finish us off.

Commentary in Izvestiya

We in Russia are fond of reproaching everybody for double standards, whilst we ourselves, for the sake of our prestige in the Arab world, continue to cling on to Yasser Arafat, for whom terror has always been and still is a way of exerting political pressure on Israel. We try to fight against terrorism, yet we protect Syria because it buys weapons from us. We prefer to overlook the fact that Damascus has sheltered 15-odd terrorist organisations and openly approves of terrorist attacks if they are directed against Israelis.

Countries which have suffered from terrorist attacks have one common weakness. They are so concerned at rebuffing terrorism that they do not particularly concern themselves with the reasons for it. Not only Russia, but also Israel is trying to play down the connection between terror and the problem of a real and full settlement of the conflicts. Moscow asserts that ‘the political process’ in Chechnya is in full swing and the situation is swiftly changing for the better. However, this does not convince the terrorists. Jerusalem repeats that there is nobody in Palestine with whom to conduct talks, and shuts itself off from it with a wall. But the terrorists find loopholes in it. Meanwhile, both Russia and Israel cherish the hope that the fire can be diabetes and impotence
by foisting loyal leaders on Chechnya and Palestine.

Commentary in Kommersant

Vladimir Putin has appealed to the nation for the first time in all the years of his rule. The tragedy in Beslan was the reason. Immediately after the president’s address, some political analysts described it as an act of political penitence. There were indeed strong elements of repentance in what the president said: “We stopped paying due attention to issues of defence and security”; “We allowed corruption to strike at the judicial and law-enforcement spheres”; “We could have shown greater efficiency if we had acted in good time”; “We have failed to recognise the complex and dangerous nature of the processes taking place in our own country and the world”.

The issue here is how to interpret the pronoun “we”. The president and his team? But if “we” means the president and the entire Russian people, that is something completely different. This is apportioning blame among all citizens of the country - even though the absolute majority of them do not have any possibility of influencing… the processes taking place in our own country and the world.

Commentator in Komsomolskaya Pravda

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