Regional government to quit over Beslan tragedy: president
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The top official in the southern Russian republic of North Ossestia promised that his government would step down amid criticism for its handling of the Beslan school hostage siege, AFP reporters on the scene said.
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Russia, stunned by the deaths of more than 300 people in the country's worst ever hostage drama, began an official period of national mourning a day after grief-stricken families started burying their loved ones in the town of Beslan.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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Voters in Russia&#39;s breakaway region of Chechnya vote Sunday for a regional president to replace Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in a bomb attack last May.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to appoint regional rulers and change voting to aid national parties that can unite the country to fight terrorism after four attacks in 10 days killed at least 430 people.
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defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has  resigned, Russia&#39;s new prime minister said on Tuesday as  President Vladimir Putin considered his proposed cabinet  lineup.
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Ousted Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov has rejected accusations he helped plan the school siege in North Ossetia in which more than 330 people died, his representative in Europe told a German news magazine.
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BESLAN, Russia - More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region...
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13 September 2004 -- Aid workers were leaving Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat today after bloody clashes in recent days sparked by the dismissal of a powerful local governor.
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Attacks by Chechen separatists in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Russian republic, have left several people dead. Russian news agencies reported that a number of Chechen fighters had been killed along with several pro-Russian policemen.
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The Kremlin reorganized its local security services on Thursday in the region where hundreds of people were killed last week in a school hostage-taking, the first public step
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Russian President Vladi mir Putin visits a victim of the besieged school at a hospital in Beslan, September 4, 2004. Putin ordered a crackdown in seething southern Russia after a school siege killed at least
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Polling stations have closed in Chechnya, in an election expected to crown a Kremlin-backed career police officer as the new leader of the breakaway Caucasus republic.
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Ten presidents of former Soviet republics said Thursday they would join hands to fight terror across the region.
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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Russian officials said terrorism is just one possible cause of Tuesday night&#39;s near-simultaneous airliner crashes that killed 89 people, while President Vladimir Putin ordered responsibility for airport security to be transferred to state law-enforcement
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Mourners were preparing on Sunday for the first funerals of more than 330 hostages killed in Russia&#39;s school hostage siege as a top local official reportedly resigned over the crisis.