Dead to be buried, Putin vows to tighten security after hostage crisis
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Grief-stricken families prepared to bury their loved ones Sunday with President Vladimir Putin vowing to toughen security after a bloody hostage drama left at least 330 people dead, about half of them children.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin says his parliament will launch an inquiry into a school siege that ended in the deaths of more than 300 hostages.
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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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BESLAN, Russia -- Relatives wandered among rows and rows of plastic body bags at a morgue yesterday, searching for loved ones who had died at the end of a three-day siege by Chechen rebels the day before.
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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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BESLAN, Sept 5: Mothers with tears flowing down their faces and fathers trying to hide their emotions buried their children and relatives on Sunday as the death toll from Russia&#39;s worst ever hostage crisis climbed by the hour.
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President Vladimir Putin says he will fight terror by consolidating security agencies and further tightening political control over the country. But his tough tactics risk alienating the public support he needs, and allies abroad seem to be ignoring his pleas to crack down on Chechen separatists.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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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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His promise of a safer Russia looking hollow after a week of disasters, President Vladimir Putin may now put his traumatised country under even tighter control, political analysts say.
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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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BESLAN, Russia -- The sound of weeping floated out of open windows and doors across this town Sunday as relatives began to bury more than 330 victims of a three-day hostage ordeal that ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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A week before the Chechen presidential election, President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Chechnya on Sunday to lay red carnations on the grave of slain Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov.
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BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect Monday as Russia mourned the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school. State television sharply criticized government officials for understating the scope of the crisis...
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BESLAN, Russia Russians stunned by last week&#39;s school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed.
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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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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed the first national day of mourning for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure on Monday, while desperate families searched for the missing and foreign planes delivered medical supplies to this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya.    In Beslan, townspeople crowded around the coffins of children, parents, grandparents and teachers ahead of the 120 burials scheduled in the town cemetery and adjoining fields...