Russian musical rises from the dead two years after hostage tragedy
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Two years after its audience and cast fell victim to a hostage siege that killed 130 people, the Nord-Ost musical has risen from its ashes with ambitious plans to conquer Russia's vast expanses.
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The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Residents of this grief-stricken southern city on Tuesday marked the end of the formal, 40-day mourning period for the hundreds of victims of a school massacre, lighting thin prayer candles and propping up small icons and photographs among the flowers piled in the shattered gymnasium at the centre of the tragedy.
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While Moscow's historic Bolshoi Theater gets a makeover, its eponymous ballet company steps out of the wings and back into the spotlight, thanks to a daring new boss
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As the death toll among former hostages climbed above 320 yesterday, there were conflicting accounts of how the three-day seizure of a Russian school erupted into its bloody denouement.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre will reopen after restoration in November 2009, a year behind schedule, after emergency work to save it from collapse, officials said on Thursday.
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Russia is counting the dead and wounded after the biggest hostage-taking assault the country has faced left at least 150 people dead at a school, many of them children.
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They came from Russia with love to a  tropical socialist utopia when the going was good.
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Russia's national hockey team played on with heavy hearts, stung by the horror of the school hostage siege back home which killed at least 330 people.
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MOSCOW - More than 320 bodies have been recovered from a school in Beslan, in southern Russia, after a three-day hostage-taking, officials said Saturday.
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The operation to end the school hostage crisis in Russia is over but more than 200 people have died after troops stormed the building.
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The opening night of an opera about the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia will be dedicated to the hundreds of people who died after terrorists seized a Russian school last week, an official said yesterday.
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The opening night of an opera about the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia will be dedicated to the hundreds of people who died after terrorists seized a Russian school last week, an official said Wednesday.
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Children returned to schools in this grief-stricken southern Russian town Wednesday, two weeks after armed militants seized more than 1,200 hostages at a school in a raid that shocked Russia and the world.
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MOSCOW  - Tens of thousands of demonstrators waving banners and flags gathered in Red Square in a show of unity against terrorism as the country mourned the hundreds of victims of a hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia.
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The ongoing celebration in the Ukrainian capital is beginning to take on a tinge of nostalgia.