Zakayev Was Asked to Assist in Negotiations at the School
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Hours before the battle broke out that ended the hostage crisis, North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov called Chechen separatist envoy Akhmed Zakayev for assistance in negotiating with the terrorists, Zakayev said Sunday.
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Key events in the seizure of a school in Beslan in southern Russia. All times are local; some are approximate.
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When Yelena's son was preparing for admission exams for a top communications institute, school officials hinted he might not get in unless she offered them a little "reward."
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Some of the hostage-takers who took over a school in southern Russia, leading to the death of more than 150 children, may not have known what they were getting
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President Bush called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and said the United States is prepared to give any help needed to resolve the hostage-taking at a Russian school, the Kremlin said.
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A top Gazprom official ended weeks of speculation, saying aid that the natural gas company wanted to bid in the auction for Yukos&#39;s main subsidiary, Yuganskneftegaz.
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President George Bush offered help on  Tuesday to resolve conflicts in Russia's neighborhood, hours  before he was to attend the first NATO summit on former Soviet  territory.
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The head of the European Commission Romano Prodi said on Sunday that it was legitimate to make a &quot;friendly&quot; request to Russia for an explanation of the bloody end to the school hostage crisis.
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Following is a selection of comments on the school siege in North Ossetia, where Russian soldiers have battled Chechen separatists to end the two-day standoff.
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MOSCOW -- Yulia Kuliyeva, only 19 and already a commissar, sat at a desk and quizzed each young person who sat opposite her, testing for ideological fitness to participate in summer camp.
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They've watched video. They've had one-on-one meetings with the coaching staff.
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Key events in seizure of a school in the town of Beslan in southern Russia. Some times are approximate.
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The political turmoil in Ukraine will make it difficult to determine the precise outcome of the presidential election there, according to a local educator who has made several trips to the nation and is familiar with the situation.
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Georgia asks Russian President Vladimir Putin for the release of a Georgian TV crew detained during the Beslan school siege.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has called a meeting of NATO states and Russia on Tuesday to discuss the siege of a school by Chechen separatists in which more than 335 people died, a NATO spokesman said.
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Hundreds more hostages may be inside a school under siege in southern Russian than first thought, Russian officials have said. As the crisis entered its third day Friday, a spokesman
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BESLAN, Russia  - When gunmen first herded them  into the gymnasium and strung explosives from wires above their  heads, things were not so bad, pupils at Beslan's Middle School  No. 1 said.