Vigil in Rome : Some of a crowd of 150,000 people march holding candles, in the streets of Rome in memory of approximately 340 school hostages killed in Beslan, North Ossetia last week. (AFP/Patrick Hertzog)

Mourning in Beslan : A relative of a victim (no name given) of the Russian hostage siege cries at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. (AFP/Maxim Marmur)

For all the children : A teddy bear and flowers are seen in front of the representative office of North Ossetia in Moscow as Russia mourned the hundreds lost in the Beslan school hostage crisis . (AFP/Denis Sinyakov)

Relatives of victims of the Russian hostage siege mourn at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. Dozens of coffins snaked their way through this grief-stricken town into a muddy field serving as a makeshift cemetery as Russia buried its children on a day of mourning for the hundreds who died in the Beslan school crisis.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Relatives of a victim (no name given) of the Russian hostage siege mourn under a heavy rain at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia.(AFP/Maxim Marmur)

Relatives mourn Sergei Dryukov, 29, a hostage killed in Russia's school siege, after his funeral in the town of Beslan, September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-mast across Russia at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. (Viktor Korotayev/Reuters)

Relatives and neighbors of killed hostages attend the funeral ceremony in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia, September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-mast across Russia at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)

Relatives cry during the funeral of hostage, 10-year-old Madina Tamayeva, in the town of Beslan, September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-mast across Russia at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

Russian state flag flies at half-staff over Moscow's Kremlin, September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-staff across Russia at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed after Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

Two girls hold candles during a march by tens of thousands of people in downtown Rome by the Colosseum and Roman Forum in memory of the victims of the school hostage crisis in Beslan, Russia and against all acts of terrorism, Monday Sept. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

A youth wearing a traditional Jewish skull cap, participates in a candlelight march next to Rome's Colosseum to commemorate the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure in Beslan, North Ossetia, Monday, Sept. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Relatives mourn for Madina Sozanova, 11, a hostage killed in Russia's school siege, after her funeral in the town of Beslan, September 6, 2004. Grief-stricken mothers and fathers trudged through mud and rain on Monday to bury children slaughtered in the siege as criticism mounted over the way the Kremlin handled the crisis.REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev

Holding candles, tens of thousands of people march through downtown Rome by the Colosseum in memory of the victims of the school hostage crisis in Beslan, Russia and against all acts of terrorism, Monday Sept. 6, 2004. In background at far right, the Vittoriano monument to the unknown soldier. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Holding candles, tens of thousand of people march in central Rome by the Roman Forum and Colosseum in memory of the victims of the school hostage crisis in Beslan, Russia and against all acts of terrorism, Monday Sept. 6, 2004. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004, issue of Russia's Izvestia daily, which ran huge, shocking pictures of wounded and dead children and other victims of the school hostage crisis in Beslan. The editor of Izvestia Raf Shakirov stepped down Monday, news reports said, in what he and media analysts linked to the paper's critical coverage of the Russian authorities' handling of the three-day school seizure in southern Russia. (AP Photo)

A video grab image taken from amateur video which was shot two years ago and obtained on September 6, 2004, shows the ceremony to mark the start of the school year on the first day of school at Beslan's school number one, in September, 2002. The school was the scene of a tragic hostage siege last Wednesday which led to the death of more than 335 people, half of them children. RUSSIA OUT REUTERS/Amateur Video/Via Reuters TV

A video grab image taken from amateur video which was shot two years ago and obtained on September 6, 2004, shows the ceremony to mark the start of the school year on the first day of school at Beslan's school number one, in September, 2002. The school was the scene of a tragic hostage siege last Wednesday which led to the death of more than 335 people, half of them children. RUSSIA OUT REUTERS/Amateur Video/Via Reuters TV

A video grab image taken from amateur video which was shot two years ago and obtained on September 6, 2004, shows the ceremony to mark the start of the school year on the first day of school at Beslan's school number one, in September, 2002. The school was the scene of a tragic hostage siege last Wednesday which led to the death of more than 335 people, half of them children. RUSSIA OUT REUTERS/Amateur Video/Via Reuters TV

Relatives of victims of the Russian hostage siege carry coffins under the heavy rain at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. Dozens of coffins snaked their way through this grief-stricken town into a muddy field serving as a makeshift cemetery as Russia buried its children on a day of mourning for the hundreds who died in the Beslan school crisis.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Relatives of victim (no name given) of the Russian hostage siege mourn at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. Dozens of coffins snaked their way through this grief-stricken town into a muddy field serving as a makeshift cemetery as Russia buried its children on a day of mourning for the hundreds who died in the Beslan school crisis.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Relatives of victims ( no names given) of the Russian hostage siege carry coffins under the heavy rain at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. Dozens of coffins snaked their way through this grief-stricken town into a muddy field serving as a makeshift cemetery as Russia buried its children on a day of mourning for the hundreds who died in the Beslan school crisis.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Relatives of victims ( no names given) of the Russian hostage siege carry coffins under the heavy rain at the cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia. Dozens of coffins snaked their way through this grief-stricken town into a muddy field serving as a makeshift cemetery as Russia buried its children on a day of mourning for the hundreds who died in the Beslan school crisis.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)

Local resident lays flowers on debris of the gymnasium at a school, which was seized by heavily armed masked men and women, in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya (news - web sites), September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-mast across Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Relatives grieve over the body of Zaur Gutnov, a 10 year old hostage killed in Russia's school siege, during his funeral in the town of Beslan, September 6, 2004. Flags flew at half-mast across Russia on Monday at the start of national mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school, while questions mounted over President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites)'s policies. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev