The police have preliminarily established the identity of the hostage taker. "It has been preliminarily established that it is Aram Petrosyan, born in 1961," the source said. The Moscow police ...

MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. The downtown Moscow bank hostage taker has surrendered to the police, the Russian Interior Ministry has told TASS. Before surrendering, the man freed the last hostage.