Putin sees Russian tragedy
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the town where commandos stormed a school in which militants were holding hundreds hostage in a chaotic battle that left at least 95 people dead.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday investigators were probing a possible link between al Qaeda and Chechen rebels widely believed to have downed two Russian passenger planes a week ago.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country needs a single ``vertical&#39;&#39; system of power to fight terrorism such as the attack on a school last week that killed 339 people.
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MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin was preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened more violence.    Putin's comments were the highest-level warning yet that Russia could take pre-emptive action against terror groups after the Sept...
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MOSCOW  - President Vladimir Putin said Friday the Kremlin is preparing to take preventive action against terrorists, even as a Chechen rebel leader purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that killed hundreds of people and threatened further violence.
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Admitting plane crashes were terror strikes weakens Putin's tough-guy image
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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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President Vladimir Putin has vowed an &quot;all-out war&quot; against terrorism as the death toll from the Russian school siege looks set to rise above 500.
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BESLAN, Russia - Wails of mourning echoed through the streets of this southern Russian town on Sunday, and the region's top police officer reportedly resigned in the wake of the school hostage-taking that left more than 350 people dead - nearly half of them children.    A shaken President Vladimir Putin went on national television Saturday to make a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin made a pre-dawn visit to pay his respects to the 250 dead and hundreds of wounded from a horrific battle between security forces and heavily-armed militants holding 1,000 hostages at a school.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin today used his annual Kremlin press conference to address many of the issues that made headlines in Russia and abroad in 2004.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares to give his annual news conference at the Kremlin.
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MOSCOW - In the aftermath of a wave of terror attacks, President Vladimir Putin yesterday announced fundamental political changes that will further concentrate power in the Kremlin and erode Russia&#39;s fragile democracy.
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Description: Russian President Vladimir Putin responds to the school massacre in Beslan by saying he&#39;ll restructure parliament and eliminate the direct election of governors.
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A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people &#151; nearly half of them children &#151; were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school.
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Three days after the tragedy of Beslan ended, we sat for over three and a half hours with Vladimir Putin. Between picking up the pieces of the worst Russian terror attack to date and planning
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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.