The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre on October 23, 2002 by about 40 armed Chechen Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR) militants who claimed allegiance to the separatist movement in Chechnya. They took 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and an end to the Second
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Today is the 4th night when I enjoy watching BLEAK HOUSE ( C. Dickens) on TV.
This nice house was moved from it's Ashburton site to Timaru and then shipped to Auckland where it has been relocated on a 5 acre block at Waitakere.
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