Force ruled out in Russian siege
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Russian authorities say they will not use force to rescue hundreds of hostages held in a school in North Ossetia.
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Russia threw up a blockade against Georgia on Monday after Tbilisi's release of four Russian soldiers accused of spying failed to defuse the worst crisis in years between the ex-Soviet neighbors.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia began counting the cost  on Saturday at the end of a siege of a school captured by  Chechen gunmen which killed at least 200 people and cast fresh  doubts on Moscow's policy in the turbulent region.
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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BESLAN, Russia : Russia was plunged into mourning at the brutal and bloody end to a three-day school siege which left over 300 children and adults dead, and many of the 1,000 hostages lying injured in hospital.
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MOSCOW A Moscow court has barred the embattled Russian oil company Yukos from holding an emergency meeting at which shareholders were to vote on liquidating the company, an executive at another oil giant said Thursday.
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MOSCOW  - Ongoing confusion over exactly how many people were taken hostage during a deadly siege at a southern Russia school is delaying the distribution of more than &#36;20 million in charity aid, officials said Thursday.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (25/11/04) - One Russian soldier has killed himself and his twin brother has surrendered to police after having deserted their army unit, killed two policemen, and taken several people hostage outside of Moscow.
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BESLAN: A senior Russian security official yesterday said that the assault on the school where hundreds of hostages were being held had not been planned.
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MOSCOW Oct. 3 -- Russia signaled Tuesday that it would not lift a transportation blockade on Georgia despite the release of four Russian officers detained on espionage charges and calls from the European Union and the United States that the two countries find ways to ease tensions.
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Russia has frozen its participation in a key arms control treaty that limits the deployment of military forces in Europe, the Kremlin announced Saturday.
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Russia said on Saturday it had no plans  for a major build-up of forces following its decision to freeze  compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty.
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BESLAN, Russia - Armed militants who seized hundreds of hostages at a school in southern Russia released 26 women and small children yesterday afternoon, but they rejected proposals for resolving the standoff as anxious relatives settled in for a long
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Rebels in Chechnya have not attacked Russian forces in the three days since the rebels' fugitive leader ordered a cease-fire, a source in the mountainous region's pro-Moscow police said on Sunday.
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MOSCOW Russian law enforcement agencies have thwarted an extremist attack on targets in Moscow, according to the FSB, the federal security service.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russia ruled out for now using  force to free hundreds of children, parents and teachers being  held under threat of death for a second day on Thursday by  armed men at a school near rebel Chechnya.
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Russia suspended its participation in a key pact limiting military forces in Europe on Saturday, fulfilling a threat after months of verbal sparring with the West.