RUSSIA’S lower house of parliament yesterday passed a bill that would severely curb news coverage of anti-terrorist operations and prohibit the media from carrying rebel statements.

Russia’s lower house of parliament today passed a bill that would severely curb news coverage of anti-terrorist operations and prohibit the media from carrying rebel statements.

Two more hostages, freed from the Moscow theatre siege by Russian troops, died in hospital overnight from the gas used to incapacitate them and their captors.