Russia&#39;s Putin Asserts Control After School Siege
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President Vladimir Putin ordered sweeping changes to Russia&#39;s political system on Monday to help combat terrorism, but immediately drew accusations of exploiting this month&#39;s bloody school siege to boost his power.
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Ossetian policemen with a sniffer dog search a classroom in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia. Picture:AP. President Vladimir Putin has announced radical changes to Russia&#39;s democratic
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VLADIMIR Putin, the Russian president, yesterday ordered a drastic centralisation of government power that is likely to strengthen the Kremlinâs grip over every aspect of political life.
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&quot;There will be no turnabout in the country&#39;s life,&quot; said Mr Putin, who has come under intense international criticism for strengthening his political control after a wave of terrorist attacks.
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President Vladimir Putin ordered  sweeping changes to Russia's political system on Monday to help  combat terrorism, but immediately drew accusations of  exploiting this month's bloody school siege to boost his power.
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Russia&#39;s Parliament has overwhelmingly approved President Vladimir Putin&#39;s plan to reinforce control over Russia by replacing popular elections of regional leaders with a central selection process.
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder adopted a resolution today saying the hostage seizure at a Russian school marked a new dimension of the threat posed to all humankind by ...
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened more violence.
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BESLAN, Russia - A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people - nearly half of them children - were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.    Putin went on national television to tell Russians that they must mobilize against terrorism and promised wide-ranging reforms to toughen security forces and purge corruption...
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MOSCOW Sept. 10, 2004 - Apparently bending to widespread public pressure, President Vladimir Putin agreed Friday to a parliamentary inquiry into the bloody standoff at a southern Russian school, after having previously said none was necessary.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  called Saturday for a radical rethink of security forces'  tactics against terror after the seizure of a school by Chechen  militants ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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BESLAN, Russia : President Vladimir Putin vowed to toughen national security and pledged to defend Russian unity after a bloody hostage crisis killed at least 330 people.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made constitutional changes on Monday designed to increase his personal control of the regions and parliament, saying the government needed &quot;strengthening&quot; because it had failed at Beslan in its fight against terrorism.
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President Vladimir Putin said on  Saturday Russia could not forget the &quot;children who would never  go to school again,&quot; recalling hundreds killed when troops  stormed a school seized by Chechen rebels three years ago.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges to back a parliamentary commission into the Beslan school siege.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school in southern Russia are holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents hostage, a regional official and released woman said, contradicting far lower official figures from the standoff that entered a third day Friday.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by the militants, who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, as hundreds of  thousands joined rallies against terrorism.