Russia marks Soviet red banner day amid security alert
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MOSCOW : Police took control of central Moscow as government sanctioned soldiers marched across Red Square while Communists held up separate rallies under red banners, against a backdrop of fear of attacks from rebels in separatist Chechnya.
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People in the Russian town of Beslan mark the end of 40 days of mourning for those who died in last month's school siege.
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Russia toughened security measures  Saturday and vowed to prevent any recurrence of twin air  crashes in which investigators were pursuing leads linked to  terrorism ahead of elections in volatile Chechnya.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the formal, 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up small icons and photographs among the flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the centre of the tragedy.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Tajik counterpart raised a Russian flag Sunday at a newly established permanent base for Moscow&#39;s forces in this former Soviet republic, staking Russia&#39;s claim for continued influence in
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UZLOVAYA, Russia  - Russia on Thursday observed a  day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious  double air disaster, which some fear could have been a  terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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Russia observed a day of mourning for the 89 people killed when two Russian passenger jets crashed almost simultaneously hundreds of miles apart after taking off from the same Moscow airport, raising new fears of terrorist attacks.
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Honor guards marched across a main Kiev square, bells tolled and religious leaders led prayers for the country Friday as Ukraine marked the 16th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union.
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Tiananmen Square was decorated with Chinese and Russian flags Thursday morning as president Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing for a three-day visit.
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Moscow police have promised heightened security after a suicide bombing near a subway killed 10 people. Moscow commuters laid a phalanx of flowers near the station entrance in memory of the dead.
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by our Internet desk, 6 September 2004. Flags are flying at half-mast in Russia as the nation mourns last Friday&#39;s massacre at a school in Beslan.
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The Tupolev "Bear" bomber is a Soviet-era icon, flying the flag for Russia's robust new foreign policy.
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MOSCOW - Waving flags and banners, tens of thousands of Russians demonstrated against terrorism Tuesday, massing outside the Kremlin in response to calls for solidarity by President Vladimir Putin's government after a series of deadly attacks that have killed more than 400 people.    The growing crowd stood still for a moment of silence in memory of victims, starting the rally after a clock atop the Kremlin's Spassky Tower struck 5 p.m...
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Services were held for 120 of the more than 300 killed when a school was seized in an attack by militants. BESLAN, RUSSIA -- Funeral processions filled the rainy streets of this southern Russian city yesterday
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Russia abolishes a number of key public holidays including the Soviet holiday marking the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
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Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that Russia was facing an invisible enemy in the face of Chechen rebels and urged the country to be on the lookout for future attacks.
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 3 -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's home town.