Beslan mothers threaten to condemn Putin in court
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Mothers of children seized by rebels at  a southern Russia school in 2004 threatened on Tuesday to use a  legal action brought by authorities against them to expose  President Vladimir Putin's role in the bungled rescue.
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Russia on Thursday proposed a U.N. crackdown on the abuse of political asylum for terrorist purposes, raising pressure on Western states to hand over wanted Chechen activists.
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Two international rights organizations appealed to President Vladimir Putin to order the release of eight relatives of a Chechen rebel leader, who were allegedly abducted last month by security forces.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 25 -- Andrei Piontkovsky, one of Russia's most pungent political commentators and a visiting scholar at the Hudson Institute in Washington, was accused in court Tuesday of inciting violence against Russians, Jews and Americans as well as insulting and stirring feelings of inferiorit...
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ST. PETERSBURG, March 3 -- Police clubbed protesters and dragged them into waiting buses Saturday in response to a defiant demonstration against the Kremlin in the heart of President Vladimir Putin's home town.
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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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A group of mothers of Russian soldiers who tried to organize a meeting in Brussels with a separatist Chechen leader aimed at ending the five-year war in Chechnya was denied entry visas by Belgium.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Children clutching their  mothers' hands, some with tears in their eyes, returned to  schools in Beslan amid heavy security Wednesday, two weeks  after a hostage massacre at a school in the town.
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THE Russian president, Vladimir Putin, yesterday accused the West of harbouring Chechen terrorists, speaking hours after rebel leader Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the Beslan school massacre.
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Russian papers voices alarm at President Putin's plans to overhaul the power structure in response to Beslan.
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President Vladimir Putin criticized  Washington's plans for an anti-missile system in Central Europe  and said on Thursday Russia would come up with a "highly  effective" response.
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Following broad criticism that President Vladimir Putin is exploiting the Beslan school massacre to enhance his powers, the Kremlin mobilized a number of surrogate spokespeople
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President Putin  faces growing questions over the school siege as more families prepare to bury their dead.
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MOSCOW : Russia&#39;s first post-Soviet president Boris Yeltsin issued a veiled warning that President Vladimir Putin&#39;s decision to hand sweeping new powers to the Kremlin in the wake of the Beslan hostage crisis could roll back democratic freedoms.
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A war of words over two British cultural centres in Russia heated up Tuesday with Moscow accusing Britain of "colonial" nostalgia after it refused orders to shut the offices.
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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.
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On the charred planks of the gymnasium of School No 1, amid soot-covered children&#39;s sneakers and shell casings, Beslan&#39;s aggrieved citizenry debated fighting back.