Images of Beslan hostages add to Russia's agony
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Horrifying pictures of masked gunmen stepping through pools of blood as they wire a gym crammed with hundreds of terrified children, teachers and parents in the opening hours of the Beslan hostage tragedy were aired by Russian television.
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World leaders expressed horror at the bloody end to the Russian hostage crisis, calling it a tragedy which resulted from a &quot;nauseating&quot; and &quot;barbaric&quot; terrorist attack.
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The detention of several journalists traveling to and from the deadly school siege in Russia is raising new concern about press freedom in the country, media watchdogs said Tuesday.
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Hundreds of people, including many children, are being held hostage in a school in Beslan by armed militants. What is your reaction?
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ELEANOR HALL: The 40-day mourning period being observed in Russia for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the school siege in the North Ossetian town of Beslan is coming to an end today.
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NEW YORK, Dec 8 (IPS) - The popular image of Russia in the West today is of   a land of post-Soviet oligarchs, oil company billionaires  languishing in  jail, President Vladimir Putin ruthlessly  centralising his power by  replacing provincial governors, civil  liberties being abused, and, of  course, the 10-year war in  Chechnya with the resulting unthinkable murder  of hundreds of  children in Beslan.
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Russia, stunned by the deaths of more than 300 people in the country's worst ever hostage drama, began an official period of national mourning a day after grief-stricken families started burying their loved ones in the town of Beslan.
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The Russian rage over the terrorists&#39; slaughter of innocents in Beslan is still fresh. The world still stands in disbelief. And now, Russians wait for the response from President Vladimir Putin.
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Russian authorities are trying to negotiate with the armed group holding at least 200 hostages, many of them children. The heavily armed militants stormed the school in Beslan on Wednesday and are demanding
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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.
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More than five weeks after hundreds perished in the seizure of School No. 1 by Chechen separatists, Beslan remains a town reeling from grief, shock, rage and disbelief, a town whose suffering seems only compounded by the day.
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Hostage-takings and kidnappings have been a feared part of life in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's disorderly North Caucasus region for centuries.
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Tragic, despicable, inhumane, cowardly,  barbaric, evil, and astonishing -- the deaths of a hundred or  more people including children in a siege in Russia sparked  strong words for the hostage-takers from world leaders.
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Russia was braced for a bloodbath last night after terrorists with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide bomb belts stormed a school and took up to 400 hostages, at least 130 of them children.
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To anyone who remembers the way that past sieges ended in the Caucasus, the chaotic scenes in Beslan were horribly familiar. The storming of the school was not planned.
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It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege &#151; a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.
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MOSCOW, Sep 4 (IPS) - The killings at the Beslan school in Russia are  only the gravest  in a long campaign of attacks and hostage  taking by Chechen separatists.