Siege Deepens Rift With West in Russia
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Last week's attack on a Russian school has driven new wedges between Russia and the West in the fight against terrorism, as Moscow continues to accuse the United States and European countries of coddling Chechen separatists.
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Europe&#39;s show of unity with Vladimir Putin was shattered yesterday when Russia accused the European Union of &#39;blasphemy&#39; for demanding an explanation of how the Beslan school hostage crisis ended in massacre.
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned  the West not to meddle with Russia's Chechnya policy on  Thursday in the wake of a bloody hostage crisis, highlighting a  growing rift over the issue between former Cold War foes.
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Tensions among the Russians are on the increase as they compete for trophies, commercial opportunities and visibility.
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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MOSCOW - The fight against terror was supposed to unite Russia and the West, pounding the last nail into the coffin of the Cold War. But three years after the Sept...
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Emergency talks on a key arms control  pact began in restrained fashion on Tuesday with Russia, the  United States and NATO states all at pains not to escalate  East-West confrontation, the U.S. and Russian delegations said.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The sound of weeping floated out of open windows and doors across this town Sunday as relatives began to bury more than 330 victims of a three-day hostage ordeal that ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia began counting the cost  on Saturday at the end of a siege of a school captured by  Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh  doubts on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia was concerned by the West's attempts to influence the situation in Ukraine, where allegations of vote fraud have sparked a political crisis that has ...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov  accused the West of double standards on terrorism in the wake  of his country's bloodiest hostage crisis.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN accused the West of fomenting âpermanent revolutionâ in Moscowâs back yard yesterday as he faced the prospect of Ukraineâs pro-Western opposition leader winning the presidential election on Sunday.
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Russian troops stormed a school in the country&#39;s south, after hostages started fleeing the building where armed terrorists had been holding as many as 1,500 people captive for two days in Beslan, North Ossetia.
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MOSCOW -- As Russia&#39;s summer of terror reached a bloody climax Friday, it might be easy to forget that a long and agonizing conflict is behind the headline-grabbing horrors that have included exploding airliners, suicide bombs in crowded subway stations
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Hundreds more hostages may be inside a school under siege in southern Russian than first thought, Russian officials have said. As the crisis entered its third day Friday, a spokesman
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...