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)