Deadly attack in Moscow: national mourning in Russia, and questions. Russia observed, this Sunday, March 24, a day of mourning after the massacre that occurred Friday in a concert hall near the capital.
Muscovites continue to flock to the memorial near Crocus City Hall, and the queues to donate blood are growing, sometimes waiting almost an hour in the rain. Several executives of Vladimir Putin's regime increased calls this weekend for the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty put in place in 1996.