Russia's Putin recalls Beslan dead on anniversary
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President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday Russia could not forget the "children who would never go to school again", recalling hundreds killed when troops stormed a school seized by Chechen rebels three years ago.
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GROZNY: Dozens of people were killed in a weekend Chechen rebel offensive on the eve of a visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials said on Monday.
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BESLAN, Russia  - The people of Beslan marked the  end of a 40-day mourning period on Tuesday, turning the Russian  school where their children were killed into a shrine with  gifts and flowers, as many warned of reprisals.
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The Russian president's announcement came as questions multiplied about the events in which more than 300 people died in Beslan.
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Russia&#39;s President Vladimir Putin has visited survivors of the school siege in southern Russia Saturday as people of the region mourned their dead, now numbering at least 322.
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President Vladimir Putin stepped up Kremlin control over Russia's regions and called for moves to improve security in the north Caucasus after the Beslan school hostage tragedy.
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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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RUSSIAN security systems were stepped up yesterday as Vladimir Putin, on holiday in the resort town of Sochi, said the crashes of two airliners would be investigated &quot;without delay&quot;.
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BESLAN, Russia : President Vladimir Putin vowed to toughen national security and pledged to defend Russian unity after a bloody hostage crisis killed at least 330 people.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Russia reburied the   mother of its last tsar on Thursday nearly 90 years after the   Bolshevik revolution forced her into exile, in a homecoming the   country hopes will help reconcile it with its bloody past.
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President Vladimir Putin said Thursday no one should try to make Russia feel guilty about the Great Purge of 1937, saying it may have been one of the most notorious episodes of the Stalin era but "in other countries even worse things happened."
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RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is considering extending his term of office, due to expire in 2008, in a sign of his determination to tighten his grip on power and crack down on terrorism after the Beslan school massacre.
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The anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks went by, mixed with the news of the dreadful incident in the Russian school in Beslan; there were nearly 350 victims, mostly children.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to give his annual news conference at the Kremlin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to wartorn Chechnya ahead of presidential elections next week. He laid a wreath at the grave of the province&#39;s recently assassinated Russian-backed leader.
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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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As the people of Beslan bury their dead, it is worth asking how Russia as a democracy has coped with the most lethal terrorist incident since September 11, 2001.