Russian lawmaker makes Beslan claims
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A lawmaker alleges that Russian security forces fired grenades at the school held by militants in Beslan two years ago, triggering a series of deadly explosions and the storming of the school in which 333 people were killed.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom said there was no danger of seeing the state lose control over the company, after a lawmaker accused a bank of helping foreigners illegally purchase Gazprom stock, sparking concern among foreign investors here.
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Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while
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Boris Kuznetsov made his name defending people who fell foul of the Russian state.
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MOSCOW -- A group of nationalist Russian lawmakers called yesterday for an investigation aimed at outlawing all Jewish organizations and punishing officials who support them, accusing Jews of fomenting ethnic hatred and provoking anti-Semitism. About 20 members of the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, joined in the action. Jewish leaders have praised President Vladimir Putin's government for encouraging ...
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ST. PETERSBURG -- In Russia's lower house of parliament, almost completely dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party, Oksana Dmitrieva was part of a very small club of independent deputies, all facing political oblivion come December's parliamentary elections.
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a statement issued on Friday, claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege in which more than 320 hostages were killed, half of them children, according to a Chechen rebel Web site.
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A pro-Russian breakaway region in  Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed  over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia&#39;s accusation  that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.
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The pro-Moscow president of Chechnya has admitted that Russian forces are to blame for a number of civilian disappearances in the war-torn republic.
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According to the statement of the KCSA press-service, obtained by UNIAN, L.Kyrychenko, a member of the pro-Yanukovych faction of 'Regions of Ukraine', claimed yesterday in the parliament that Kyiv guard firms ...
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BESLAN, Russia -- Astan Belikoyev knows what people are saying. They don't say it to his face. If anyone did, he noted bitterly, he would probably punch them in the face.
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Russia's parliament sets up a commission to investigate the attack on a school in Beslan two weeks ago.
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A pro-Russian breakaway region in Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia's accusation that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian regional leader spoke out yesterday against President Vladimir Putin's plans to disband local assemblies that reject his choice of governor.
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NATO's chief and a top Russian lawmaker on Monday clashed over a U.S. plan for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
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Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin, speaking on behalf of the Russian forces in Chechnya has confirmed that there was an attack in the Chechen capital Grozny.