Putin Agrees to Inquiry Into Russian School Siege
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Apparently bending to widespread public pressure, President Vladimir V. Putin agreed today to a parliamentary inquiry.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin closes the borders of North Ossetia in an attempt to catch fugitives from a bloody school siege.
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Russian officials hope to prevent reprisals as a 40-day mourning period ends for victims of the school siege.
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President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that investigators were looking for a link between al-Qaida and Chechen rebels widely believed to have downed two planes last week.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he was prepared to work with Germany and the European Union to help resolve the bloody conflict in Chechnya.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that the hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia showed that international terrorism was at work in the country.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is &quot;seriously preparing&quot; for pre-emptive strikes against terrorists, while Chechen insurgent leader Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for a school hostage-taking and other attacks that
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Russian President Vladi mir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin says he will fight anti-Russian attacks by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country.
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Russia says it will launch an inquiry to unravel the sequence of events which brought a violent end to the school siege at Beslan in North Ossetia.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  ordered security forces to seal off a southern region amid  fears some Chechen hostage-takers may have escaped the storming  of a siege school which killed at least 250 people.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced his government would work towards fulfilling a 1956 agreement with Japan to resolve the status of two disputed islands.
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir V. Putin criticized Russia's security efforts yesterday, a day after the end of a bloody school siege that left more than 300 hostages dead, declaring, &quot;We showed weakness, and the weak get beaten.&quot;
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin is 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 further violence.