Beslan hostage-takers were all addicts says top Russian official
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All the hostage-takers who seized Beslan&#39;s school number one on September 1 were drug addicts and were under the influence of narcotics throughout the 52-hour siege, Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General has claimed.
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A senior official in Russia's justice ministry says some two thirds of the country's prisoners are ill.
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Alexander Torshin, the head of a parliamentary commission investigating last month&#39;s Beslan school hostage crisis, on Tuesday questioned officials&#39; contentions that the raiders were using narcotics, saying he believes they were deranged by an unknown drug
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Russian special services on Monday freed   all hostages who were being held by inmates at a Moscow prison,   the Interfax news agency reported, citing the head of Russia's   prison service.
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The terrorists who took over 1,000 people hostage at a school in southern Russia last month used more than just heroin, the head of a parliamentary committee investigating the Beslan siege told journalists.
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beslan on Saturday, one day after the violent end of a hostage drama at a school in the North Caucasus town claimed the lives of at least 250 adults and children and terrorized the community.
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Chechnya's most notorious warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed responsibility for the deadly school hostage taking in southern Russia, according to a letter posted on a rebel website.
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Russia put a 10-million-dollar price tag on the heads of two Chechen rebel leaders accused of masterminding the hostage-taking which ended in a bloodbath at a Beslan school.
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The full force of the hostage tragedy that unfolded in southern Russia begins to hit home in the stunned town of Beslan.
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Russian prosecutors have accused a group of survivors of the 2004 Beslan school seizure of being extremist, one member said Friday, calling the allegation part of a campaign by officials to silence the activists.
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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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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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Russian state TV airs an interview with an alleged hostage-taker, as two days of national mourning begin.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 5, 2004 - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region&#39;s top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage
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Chechen terrorist leader Samil Basayev has claimed responsibility for several recent terrorist attacks in Russia, including a school hostage siege that left more than 300 adults and children dead, according to a Chechen rebel Web
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Russian police on Sunday broke up a  human rights campaigners' rally calling on President Vladimir  Putin to tell the whole truth about the deaths of more than 300  hostages in the Beslan school siege two years ago.