Relatives of victims of the Beslan school siege have blocked a major road in southern Russia and are demanding the regional government resigns.
More than 300 people who had been held hostage by pro-Chechen gunmen died when the siege in North Ossetia came to a violent end in September last year.
For more than 24 hours now, about 100 angry parents from Beslan have blocked one of the main federal highways.
Dozens of them pitched tents across the road which passes through their town.
They have lit fires and are refusing to budge.
Many lost children and other family members in the siege at Beslan's school.
Personal appeal
Speaking to the BBC, one of the protest's organisers, Visarion Aseyev, an opposition member in the regional parliament, said the protesters were fed up with corruption and incompetence in the administration of their region of North Ossetia.
The massacre in Beslan was the last straw, Mr Aseyev said. Many locals blame the authorities, saying they were negligent in allowing the siege to happen.
Following the siege, there was huge pressure on North Ossetia's President Alexander Dzasokhov to resign, but he is still in office.
On Friday morning, he personally tried to persuade the demonstrators to go home.
They told him they would not unblock the highway until he and his government resigned.
Some protesters are also calling for an independent international investigation into the siege, as they are dissatisfied with the progress of the official Russian inquiry.
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