The cruelty of the September 2004 terrorist attack marks Beslan as Russia's worst hostage crisis. The similarities and differences in the reporting of such a violent, and ultimately calamitous, series of events are the focus of this book. The book investigates ways in which different narratives are constructed from, and in response to, events emerging from situations of violent conflict. It explores the relevance of narratives for, and the contributions of socio- narrative theory towards, understanding, explaining and challenging the behaviour of individuals and the practices of social units and institutions. The book also explores issues of translation and ways in which translation impacts on the (re)construction of narratives. It is written as an act of anamnesis to engender recognition and recollection. The book is essentially a case study in that it investigates in depth a small sample of online reporting written in response to a particular set of events. The socio- narrative theory presented is not just an analytical tool but is itself an object of investigation. The book investigates the Russian- language narrative texts published by a different online news agency by analyzing those texts published by the major Russian agency RIA- Novosti . It then examines the Chechen resistance website Kavkazcenter, and investigates the reports published by Caucasian Knot, a charitably funded Russian civil society website. These chapters strive to determine what narratives, the English-language material, these three Russian news agencies constructed from the reported events in Beslan, and how these narratives were constructed.