Russia Mourns Hostage Deaths, Putin Criticized
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Russia on Monday mourned the deaths of hundreds of children and adults in its worst hostage drama as criticism mounted over the way President Vladimir Putin and his security forces handled the crisis.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian President Vladimir Putin  rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in the school hostage siege, as hundreds of  thousands joined rallies against terrorism.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin  paid his respects on Tuesday to millions of people killed under  Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and called for the country to  unite to prevent a repeat of its tragic past.
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Russians massed in their hundreds of  thousands Tuesday to denounce terrorism, as President Vladimir  Putin rejected talks with Chechen separatists, blamed for at  least 335 deaths in last week's school hostage siege.
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FOR many Russians it was a week of funerals, mourning and horrified disbelief. The reaction of Vladimir Putin to the deaths in Beslan, however, has been rather different: to go on the offensive.
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Grief-stricken families prepared to bury their loved ones Sunday with President Vladimir Putin vowing to toughen security after a bloody hostage drama left at least 330 people dead, about half of them children.
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MOSCOWâAfter the worst hostage-taking crisis of his presidency, when the southern Russian town of Beslan was soaked in the blood of its children, Vladimir Putin didn&#39;t dare present his condolences face to face.
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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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President Vladimir V. Putin vented his anger at the killers and at critics who call for a moderate response.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday discussed with cabinet ministers the questions of aid to those who suffered from the terrorist tragedy in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Itar-Tass reported.
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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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MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.    More than 100,000 people were expected to take part in the evening rally in the capital, organized by a pro-government trade union and advertised on state-controlled television by celebrities who appealed to citizens to turn out to say no to terror...
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.
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BESLAN, Sept 5: Mothers with tears flowing down their faces and fathers trying to hide their emotions buried their children and relatives on Sunday as the death toll from Russia&#39;s worst ever hostage crisis climbed by the hour.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.
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Grief-stricken mothers and fathers have trudged through mud and rain to bury children slaughtered in the Russian school siege as criticism mounts over the way the Kremlin handled the crisis.