Russia town shaken by police raid
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Russian authorities investigate a police operation that led to hundreds of young men allegedly being arrested and beaten.
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MOSCOWâWhen masked security forces stormed the Hatayev home this weekend, smashing through front windows and ordering crying children to lie on the floor, the Chechen family was frightened but not surprised.
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TBILISI -- Four Russian military officers were arrested on spying charges yesterday, and police surrounded a Russian military headquarters here demanding that a fifth Russian officer be handed over to authorities. The operation sparked a furious reaction from Russia, which demanded the officers' release, accusing its southern neighbor of ``a fresh outrage."
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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Police violently broke up an unauthorized opposition rally in Russia's second-largest city Saturday, clubbing dozens of activists before dragging them into waiting buses.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexican police raided a town to search for members of an angry mob who lynched two officers a day earlier, but said they had been powerless to prevent the attack.
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Russian special forces Friday stormed the school near Chechnya where hundreds of children and adults have been held hostage for 52 hours. The action followed an intense gun battle during which dozens of hostages escaped even as gunmen fired on them.
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Police in Russia hunt two men who robbed a house while dressed as the Russian version of Santa-Claus.
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9 September 2004 -- Russian police in St. Petersburg said today they found explosives, detonators, and a gun in a cinema which was closed for renovation.
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Thousands of police patrolled a tense town today after street fights between members of the country&#39;s main ethnic group and a Muslim minority left seven people dead and 42 injured.
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Up to seven people were killed in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, a report quoting officials said.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The killing of more than 320  children, parents and teachers during the bloody end to a  53-hour school siege left barely a family untouched in the  small Russian town of Beslan.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 5, 2004 - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region&#39;s top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage
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Two car bombs injured 13 people in the capital of Chechnya, medical staff and officials have said. The first explosion hit a convoy of cars carrying pro-Moscow police at 0430 GMT.
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A wave of terror has hit Russia. We have grown used to referring to what has been happening in Chechnya as the âcounter-terrorist operationâ.
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Attacks by Chechen separatists in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Russian republic, have left several people dead. Russian news agencies reported that a number of Chechen fighters had been killed along with several pro-Russian policemen.
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Russian officials say police in Moscow have defused a car bomb that was to be placed along a road often used by government officials.