Russian Leader Promises Open Inquiry Into Terror Attack
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In an unusual retreat, Vladimir V. Putin today promised an open inquiry into the slaughter of hostages at a school.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday discussed with cabinet ministers the questions of aid to those who suffered from the terrorist tragedy in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Itar-Tass reported.
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BUCHALKI, Russia - Russian investigators labored Wednesday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties about a possible bloody escalation of the Chechen conflict.    Officials stressed that no evidence of a terrorist attack had yet been found among charred wreckage and said they opened a criminal investigation as they looked into other causes like bad fuel, equipment malfunction and human error...
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President Vladimir Putin agreed Friday to a parliamentary investigation of the bloody school hostage siege in southern Russia, less than a week after he reportedly dismissed the idea by saying it might turn into "a political show."
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Russian investigators laboured yesterday to determine whether terrorism caused the near-simultaneous crashes of two jetliners, killing all 89 people aboard and spreading anxieties
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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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Russia said it would give top priority to funding new efforts to fight terrorism a day after President Vladimir Putin unveiled plans to concentrate national political efforts on the same objective.
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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.
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President Vladimir Putin has vowed an &quot;all-out war&quot; against terrorism as the death toll from the Russian school siege looks set to rise above 500.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia is "seriously preparing" for pre-emptive strikes against terrorists, as Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for a school hostage-taking and other attacks that have claimed more than 430 lives.    Speaking to a meeting of world mayors in Moscow, Putin also made a veiled attack on the West, saying that double standards in dealing with terrorism are "disastrous for global security."   Putin didn't name any specific countries, but his comments appeared to be aimed against European and U.S...
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President Vladimir Putin says he will fight terror by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country.
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Russian prosecutors said they were opening their own murder inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko as a funeral was held for the former Russian spy at a central London mosque.
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Russia's top general said on Wednesday he was ready to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world, as security services put a &#36;10 million bounty on two Chechen rebels blamed for last week's school siege.
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Russia's parliament drafted proposals  for an anti-terrorism law Monday, the day it began an inquiry  into the Beslan school siege that killed more than 320  hostages, half of them children.
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: Apparently responding to wide public dismay over last week&#39;s school hostage-taking, President Vladimir Putin on Friday agreed to formation of a parliamentary investigative commission.
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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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President Vladimir Putin reversed himself yesterday and authorized a parliamentary investigation into last week&#39;s terror attack on a school in southern Russia, the first time he has