Beslan Terrorists Were Drug Addicts: Russian official
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The terrorists who took hostages at a Beslan secondary school on September 1, were addicted to narcotics, according to a statement by Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General, Nikolay Shepel.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Hostages released from a provincial Russian school said there are at least 1,500 people being held there by armed militants, Russian newspapers reported Friday, and a local legislator announced a similar figure challenging far lower official numbers.
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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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Russia did its best to learn lessons from the drugs shame that hit its Winter Olympics team two years ago but the Athens summer Games have turned into a doping &quot;Hiroshima,&quot; its anti-doping chief said Monday.
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The mass murderers who seized the school in Beslan, Russia, this month committed one of the most heinous acts of terrorism in world history.
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Russia's chief prosecutor has ordered  criminal proceedings against three police officers in Beslan,  the town where more than 320 people died in a mass  hostage-taking, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia's top general said on  Wednesday he was ready to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in  the world, as security services put a $10 million bounty on two  Chechen rebels blamed for last week's school siege.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA - Three Russian police officers have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage-taking that left 360 people dead, almost half of them children.
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Islamic militants killed four anti-drugs  unit members and seized more than 170 submachine guns and  pistols on Tuesday in an attack on the unit's offices in  Russia's volatile Caucasus region.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 1 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Georgian government of "state terrorism with hostage-taking" in a blistering attack Sunday that followed the arrests on espionage charges last week of four Russian military officers in Georgia.
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Some two-thirds of Russia's jail inmates suffer from mental illnesses, serious diseases from AIDS to tuberculosis and syphilis, or alcohol and drug addictions, a top justice ministry official says.
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Terrorists were responsible for the downing of at least one of two passenger planes that crashed in southern Russia this week, a Russian official acknowledged yesterday.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.
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Russia has again accused the West of double standards in the war on terrorism, following last week&#39;s school hostage crisis in the southern town of Beslan.
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VOLGOGRAD, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - Work in Beslan is nearing completion to sum up material damage, inflicted by terrorists on September 1-3, Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel said in an interview with Tass on Thursday.
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Russia is calling for a crackdown on terrorists who seek political asylum to avoid prosecution, including the speedy extradition of terror suspects.
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MOSCOW - Traces of explosives have been found in the wreckage of one of two airliners that crashed nearly simultaneously earlier this week, the Federal Security Service said Friday, a day after a top official acknowledged that terrorism was the most likely cause of the crashes.    A duty officer at the agency, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, confirmed reports on Russian news agencies that cited agency spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko as saying that "preliminary analysis indicates it was hexogen."   The announcement came several hours after a Web site known for militant Muslim published a claim of responsibility for the twin crashes, connecting the action to Russia's fight against separatists in Chechnya...