Beslan

Her rise to prominence came in 2004, when she reported on the Beslan school siege by Chechen militants.

It’s 20 years today since the siege ended suddenly in devastating explosions, but I can still hear the wailing of Beslan’s mothers; the grief that rolled over the town in waves.

In 2004, the suffering of Beslan was felt all over Russia and resonated all over the world.

The day before the Beslan siege, 10 people were killed when a Chechen woman blew herself up outside a Moscow metro station.

But for two decades now there have been persistent, troubling questions about how Mr Putin and his officials handled the attack on Beslan in their determination not to "give in" to terrorists.