Yesterday, home sick with the flu, I first found out about the terrorist attack in Moscow's Domodedovo airport via Facebook. Shortly after, the phone began to ring. Friends called trying to find if either myself or my husband knew anything about the fate of our mutual friend, playwright Anna Mashutina, who goes by the pen name of Anna Yablonskaya. We knew Anna was flying into town from Odessa, Ukraine, to collect an award. She never turned up at the ceremony and would not pick up her phone. We called and we called to no avail. Read the story here.
