Do as we say, not as we do

In reporting on Russian commentators drawing parallels between 9/11 and the Beslan atrocity, the BBC for September 11 reports that

[l]eading daily Izvestiya gave prominence to an interview with American terrorism expert Karen Larson, a consultant to the Rand Corporation, in which she urged Russia's state institutions to adopt greater openness in their dealings with citizens in the wake of Beslan.

"You have too long a history of confrontation between the people and the authorities. You can only beat the terrorists by dropping the old stereotypes," Ms Larson says in the interview.

"Dropping old stereotypes." Good advice. Now maybe she'll give it to us.