Russia 'wasted time' during siege
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Russia wasted valuable time at the start of the school hostage crisis, negotiator Ruslan Aushev says.
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A Chechen rebel commander has claimed responsibility for the school hostage siege in southern Russia earlier this month, during which more than 320 hostages were killed, half of them children.
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Russian officials hope to prevent reprisals as 40-day mourning period ends for victims of the school siege. By Fred Weir | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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MOSCOW/ST PETERSBURG  - Russia said on Saturday its offer to the United States of joint use of a radar it controls in Azerbaijan made a planned American missile shield in central Europe unnecessary.
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MOSCOW - Confirming Russian allegations, Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev purportedly took responsibility Friday for a bloody school siege and other recent terrorist attacks that have killed more than 430 people, but put ultimate blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.    In a letter posted Friday on the Kavkaz-Center Web site, Basayev was unrepentant about the Sept...
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President Vladimir Putin rejected calls  to soften his Chechnya policy after last week's school hostage  siege, in which at least 335 people died, and said he would not  talk to Chechen separatists.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday he regretted the way Europe's main election watchdog had behaved in a dispute over monitoring a March 2 presidential vote.
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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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Russia began counting the cost on Saturday at the end of siege of a school captured by Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast
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Security forces are not planning to use force to end a school siege in southern Russia where an armed group has taken hundreds of hostages, a regional leader said on Friday.
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The Russian government has accused the UK of attempting to "distort facts" in the British Council row.
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Russians massed in their hundreds of  thousands Tuesday to denounce terrorism, as President Vladimir  Putin rejected talks with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in last week's school hostage siege.
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Russia's president denounces calls for him to talk to Chechen separatists after the siege that killed hundreds.
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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Britain accused Russia of "conduct not worthy of a great country" on Thursday after what it called a campaign of intimidation by security services forced its cultural centers in two Russian cities to halt operations.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed regret in relation to what it called untactful public statements made by Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga about the upcoming May 9 celebrations to mark the 60th ...
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Russia said on Saturday it would suspend its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in Europe in five months' time unless a compromise was found on updating the treaty.
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A court in southern Russia said the only attacker to survive the Beslan school siege deserves the death penalty but sentenced him to life in prison on Friday because Russia has a moratorium on capital punishment.