Russians question official take on hostage-takers&#39; identities
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MOSCOW -- Two days after the bloody end of a hostage crisis left more than 300 people dead, the identity of the attackers who seized a school in the ethnic patchwork of Russia&#39;s North Caucasus region remained uncertain yesterday.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 1 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the Georgian government of "state terrorism with hostage-taking" in a blistering attack Sunday that followed the arrests on espionage charges last week of four Russian military officers in Georgia.
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The detention of several journalists traveling to and from the deadly school siege in Russia is raising new concern about press freedom in the country, media watchdogs said Tuesday.
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BESLAN, Russia - Heavily armed militants who seized a school in southern Russia are holding at least 1,000 children, teachers and parents hostage, a regional official and released woman said, contradicting far lower official figures from the standoff that entered a third day Friday.    Russian officials had said that about 350 people were being held by the militants, who seized the school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan on Wednesday...
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Authorities have detained two residents of the southern province of Ingushetia on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September, officials said Thursday.
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Russia&#39;s Federal Security Service has offered a $10 million reward for information that would help &quot;neutralize&quot; two Chechen rebel leaders it accuses of being behind last week&#39;s deadly school hostage crisis.
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Militants appear to have planned their seizure of a Russian school carefully, starting months earlier and sneaking weapons into the building in advance. Still, some of the raiders may not have known what they were getting into and were appalled to find they were holding children hostage.
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Chechnya&#39;s notorious warlord ShamilBasayev is behind the school hostage-taking in southern Russia that has led to the deaths of over 100 people, Russia&#39;s Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
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Russian newspapers question the government's ability to tackle terrorism, while in France, there is hope two kidnapped journalists could soon be freed.
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BESLAN, Russia - Russians rallied against terrorism Tuesday in response to a hostage-taking that claimed more than 350 lives, and President Vladimir Putin denied a link between Russia's policies in Chechnya and the standoff in this southern city.    In an interview late Monday with foreign journalists and academics, Putin again rejected Western calls for negotiations with Chechen rebel representatives, Britain's Guardian daily reported...
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Russian officials are checking the identity of two female passengers in their investigiation into almost simultaneous plane crashes earlier this week.
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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Russian law enforcement officials have  detained two Chechens on suspicion of killing investigative  reporter Anna Politkovskaya, pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya  Pravda reported on Saturday.
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took place on May 9 in (regional capital) Grozny,&quot; Kadyrov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency on Monday. Officials did not disclose the man&#39;s full name.
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Russian law enforcement officials have detained two Chechens on suspicion of killing investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on Saturday.
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Russian papers wonder what President Putin's nomination of Viktor Zubkov as PM means for the presidential election.
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RUSSIAN ON-LINE NEWSPAPER - Questions are mounting about whether Putin&#39;s policies - not only in Chechnya but also the power consolidation drive to stamp out opposition and public debate - are exacerbating the terrorist threat.