Racial riots, looting hit Russian town
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Hundreds of people looted shops and   burned a restaurant belonging to Caucasus businessmen in an   outbreak of racial violence in northwestern Russia triggered by   the recent killing of two locals, Russian media said on Sunday.
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KONDOPOGA, Russia  - Dozens of wrecked market   stalls rot in the rain and a restaurant stands burned and   looted, its windows boarded up.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses yesterday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's hometown.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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Fighting involving ethnic Armenians and others in a Volga River town left one person dead and at least three injured this week, officials and news reports said Friday, fueling fears of a rise of ethnic violence across Russia.
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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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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.
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Hundreds of protesters ransacked and occupied the regional administration building in a southern Russian province Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian troops stormed a school  on Friday, blaming Chechen hostage-takers for a bloody battle  in which more than 200 people -- dozens of them children --  were killed and hundreds were wounded.
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OAXACA CITY, Mexico  - Riot police firing tear gas clashed with protesters launching fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails on Saturday in the strife-torn city of Oaxaca.
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Vandals painted swastikas on more than 100 Jewish and Tatar gravestones in a central Russian city and overturned many others &#151; the latest in a string of anti-Semitic, racist and hate crime vandalism across the nation, police officials said Wednesday.
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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BESLAN, Russia - Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school two weeks ago in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.    Students and teachers began the school day with a minute of silence, and officials said the town's seven schools would have a shortened day of classes...
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Beslan, Russia - Funeral processions snaked through this grief-racked town as relatives buried victims of the school siege in southern Russia in rows of freshly dug graves Sunday.
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Children returned to classes in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday for the first time since heavily armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at
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MOSCOW - Amid rising ethnic tensions in the North Caucasus, thousands on Tuesday took to the streets of Grozny, the Chechen capital, to protest the proposed pardon of a Russian army colonel who murdered a young Chechen woman.
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 3 -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's home town.