Shopping Mall Tragedy Raises Concerns About Russian Response

Expand A man places flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the shopping mall fire in Kemerovo, at Manezhnaya square in central Moscow, Russia March 27, 2018. © 2018 Reuters Forty-one children, some as young as 4 years old died in the colossal fire in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday. So far, the official death toll is 64 people; many are still missing. The question now is: will families of the victims get justice in the wake of unimaginable loss? The fire broke out on the fourth floor of a shopping mall, near a movie theatre full of children who were watching Sherlock Gnome,…

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