Beslan hostage-takers were all addicts says top Russian official
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All the hostage-takers who seized Beslan&#39;s school number one on September 1 were drug addicts and were under the influence of narcotics throughout the 52-hour siege, Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General has claimed.
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Around 300 people, including many children, were facing a harrowing night in captivity Wednesday after they were taken hostage by extremists wearing belts laden with explosives at a southern Russian school near war-torn Chechnya.
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The government of Russian president Vladimir Putin has seized on the events around the armed takeover of a school in Beslan, a town in the southern republic of Ossetia, to broaden its âantiterrorism
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MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies
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Saturday's Russian press is dominated by the bloody hostage drama in North Ossetia .
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Dramatic video taken by hostage-takers during the Beslan school siege is broadcast on Russian TV.
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Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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MOSCOW - A Russian man whom police stopped for allegedly driving drunk tried to swallow his keys then bit an officer as the officer tried to retrieve them, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beslan on Saturday, one day after the violent end of a hostage drama at a school in the North Caucasus town claimed the lives of at least 250 adults and children and terrorized the community.
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Forensic analysis of the bodies of 31 militants who died in the Beslan school attack last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior regional prosecutor said.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (18/10/04) - Coroners found traces of drugs in the systems of all the terrorists that seized a school in the North Ossetian city of Beslan last month, a senior Russian prosecutor said.
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A senior official in Russia's justice ministry says some two thirds of the country's prisoners are ill.
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The terrorists who took over a school in Beslan last month were drug addicts, says Nikolay Shepel, Deputy Prosecutor General, Russia.
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Thousands of Russian army conscripts are each year inducted into a life of starvation, beatings and torture which drives hundreds to suicide, a Human Rights Watch report concluded yesterday.
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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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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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Europe's top human rights official says the pro-Russian authorities in Chechnya are systematically using torture.