Now you're talking. Sorry, I couldn't read all of the comments or my head would explode ;-)
So... let me get this straight. A tragedy occurs, a great big hole is opened in the souls of the masses, and a politician "feels their pain" and promises to do something about it. To the best of his ability.
President Clinton at Oklahoma City, President Bush at Ground Zero, President Putin at Beslan. Where's the problem?
Personally I don't think Chechnya will ever get solved. Russia gave it de facto independence and Chechnya sank into barbarity, Chechnyan gangsters/terrorists/jihadists kidnapped and murdered, invaded the neighboring republics in order to incite mass civil war (just like in Beslan). Russia takes Chechnya back, and the same old same old continues.
A good Russian word for the situation: tupik. Dead end. Can't win, can't leave it be. Bloodshed until the end of time.
Reminds me of a song by the Russian Jim Morrison (Viktor Tsoy)
All those anguished pictures of those poor people crying over their murdered children make me hate Communists like Putin even more.