Russian prosecutor says Beslan school attackers were drug addicts
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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A lawmaker alleges that Russian security forces fired grenades at the school held by militants in Beslan two years ago, triggering a series of deadly explosions and the storming of the school in which 333 people were killed.
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Bribery and negligence by officials  helped Chechen suicide bombers get on board two passenger  planes last month and blow them up, Russia's chief prosecutor  said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Russian prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a campaign group's complaint that conscripts were bullied into working in a prostitution ring run by older servicemen. In the latest embarrassment for Russia's military, one soldier said he was tortured with electric shocks until he agreed to have sex with clients, according to testimony collected by a campaign group. ...
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MOSCOW - Russian police investigating the deadly Beslan school siege are looking inside their own squad house: One of the attack organizers was allegedly a former cop who disappeared six years ago.    He wouldn't be the first to turn traitor...
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Russian prosecutors on Tuesday charged four Chechen men with murder as part of their probe into clashes in a northern Russian town that left two local residents dead and triggered a wave of mob violence, officials said.
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Some two-thirds of Russia's jail inmates suffer from mental illnesses, serious diseases from AIDS to tuberculosis and syphilis, or alcohol and drug addictions, a top justice ministry official says.
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Guerrillas behind the horrific slaughter at the middle school in Beslan in southern Russia appear to have planned their operation meticulously, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance.
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MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) - The raid on a school in North Ossetia&#39;s Beslan, in which hundreds of people, including children, were taken hostage, was organized by notorious Chechen guerilla leader Shamil Basayev
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a letter posted Friday on the net, claimed responsibility for the Beslan school hostage-taking in which more than 330 people were killed,, the Interfax news agency reported.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, RUSSIA - Three Russian police officers have been charged with criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage-taking that left 360 people dead, almost half of them children.
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MOSCOW  - Guerrillas behind the horrific slaughter at the middle school in Beslan in southern Russia appear to have planned their operation meticulously, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The people of Beslan marked the  end of a 40-day mourning period on Tuesday, turning the Russian  school where their children were killed into a shrine with  gifts and flowers, as many warned of reprisals.
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RUSSIAN prosecutors charged a Chechen man with terrorism and murder in connection with the deadly hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia, the Interfax news agency reported today.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school three days ago are holding at least 1,000 students, teachers and parents hostage inside the building, far more than previously thought, a released hostage and a regional official said.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by raiders who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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MOSCOW  - Russian prosecutors charged a Chechen man with terrorism and murder in the deadly hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.