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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Police killed four looters as mobs set scores of houses and businesses ablaze in a western town, an official said Friday, in clashes sparked by the police killing of an opposition lawmaker.
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BESLAN, Russia - Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday as townspeople buried scores of victims of a school siege that prosecutors have linked to a Chechen rebel leader.
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An opposition Web site in the  southern Russian region of Ingushetia accused local authorities  on Thursday of trying to shut it down after it promoted  protests and published details of kidnaps and murders.
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ODESSA, Ukraine  - A statue of Catherine the Great has sparked a fierce row in the multi-ethnic Ukrainian port of Odessa, with riot police confronting Cossack demonstrators in the street after midnight.
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THE UNSPEAKABLE tragedy in Beslan, the town in Southern Russia where terrorists seized a school on the first day of class and where more than 300 people
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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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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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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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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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Key events in the seizure of a school in Beslan in southern Russia. All times are local; some are approximate.
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...
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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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Russian riot police break up a rare rally by opponents to President Vladimir Putin in central St Petersburg.
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More and more Russians believe their country is for whites only, and that's leading to deadly violence
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BESLAN, Russia - Russian soldiers fled as shooting broke out in the spasm of violence that ended the school siege here, and unprepared special forces were forced to borrow bullets from armed locals who had rushed to the scene.    As Beslan buried more victims Friday, a week after the bloodbath at School No...
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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.