Rally Offers Putin Support Over Hostage Bloodbath
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian state television  predicted at least 100,000 people would attend a Moscow rally  on Tuesday to denounce terrorism, bolstering President Vladimir  Putin against critics over a Chechnya-linked hostage bloodbath.
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The death toll from Russia's school hostage crisis climbed to at least 394 as grieving relatives prepared to bury the first victims while others sifted through overwhelmed morgues for their lost loved ones.
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Moscow on Saturday expressed strongindignation over Dutch foreign minister&#39;s remarks on Russia&#39;s school hostage-taking crisis that caused at least 322 people dead.
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Andriy Reshetnyak tied a Russian flag to the Ukrainian one, joining thousands of demonstrators backing a referendum on autonomy for their eastern province on Donetsk's central Lenin Square on Monday.
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The first funerals for the victims of the Russian school siege will be held today as a shaken President Vladimir Putin vowed an âall-out warâ against terrorism.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 380 people dead - nearly half of them children.    A shaken President Vladimir Putin went on national television Saturday to make a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists...
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Tens of thousands of members of a pro-Kremlin youth group rally in the Russian capital, Moscow.
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly,  barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or  more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked  strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders.
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An unusually large and unruly public protest against the government of President Vladimir V. Putin ended with more than 100 arrests.
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Europe&#39;s show of unity with Vladimir Putin was shattered yesterday when Russia accused the European Union of &#39;blasphemy&#39; for demanding an explanation of how the Beslan school hostage crisis ended in massacre.
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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of people answered a government call and rallied outside the Kremlin on Tuesday in a show of solidarity against terrorism, nearly a week after militants seized a school in southern Russia in a standoff that claimed more than 350 lives, many of them children.    Mourners in the grief-stricken city of Beslan lowered caskets into the damp earth in a third day of burials from the siege, which officials have blamed on Chechens and other Islamic militants...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the town where commandos stormed a school in which militants were holding hundreds hostage in a chaotic battle that left at least 95 people dead.
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Up to 12,000 supporters of West-leaning liberal Viktor Yushchenko massed in Kiev&#39;s main square urging authorities to acknowledge what they believed was a triumph in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election on Sunday.
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The death toll in the Russian hostage crisis went beyond 350 as Russian President Putin vowed to strengthen Russian unity and boost security in the north Caucasus.
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Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses on Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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European Union foreign ministers appealed Friday for calm and expressed solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a school hostage crisis came to a violent end.