Ella Lazarovna Kesaeva

After the Beslan school massacre in 2004, she became member of Mothers of Beslan. In 2005, she founded Voice of Beslan – a non-governmental organization and an association of the parents of child victims of the massacre, highly critical of the Russian authorities and Vladimir Putin for their questionable approach to the crisis and consequent investigation. Currently, she co-chairs the group with her sister.