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A school that is forever silent. Remembering victims of Beslan hostage crisis: five years later
02/09/2009 17:07
North Ossetia tightens school security on Beslan anniversary
01/09/2009 11:41 Around 3,000 police officers are guarding schools in the south Russian republic of North Ossetia on Tuesday, as locals mourn the victims of the Beslan school massacre five years ago.
South Russia to tighten security ahead of school term
28/08/2009 13:25 Russia's interior minister ordered on Friday extra security measures in troubled regions of the North Caucasus ahead of the start of the school year.
Time and distance unable to heal former Beslan hostages
03/09/2008 18:50 Some of the survivors of the terror attack left Beslan to avoid remembering the tragedy. A number of former hostages now live in Moscow, but they haven’t managed to forget the three days they spent at the school captured by terrorists.
Russia remembers Beslan tragedy
01/09/2008 19:17 Four years ago, a terrorist attack in Beslan, North Ossetia, killed 335 people, including 186 children. Three days of mourning have been declared in memory of the deceased.
Four years on, Russia remembers Beslan school tragedy
01/09/2008 13:08 Russia marks on Monday the fourth anniversary of the Beslan school tragedy during which 331 people died, including 186 children.
Play based on bloody Moscow theater siege to be shown in Beslan
11/04/2008 18:00
Russia Supreme Court upholds acquittal of Beslan police
06/03/2008 16:30
Gunmen leader, Beslan siege mastermind killed in south Russia
17/06/2007 17:09 A gunmen leader and a mastermind of the bloody school siege in Beslan, Ruslan Aushev, has been killed in a special forces operation in southern Russia, the special services said Sunday.

Putin says Russia-U.S. relations warmer, but urges changes Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday that relations between Russia and the United States have become warmer, but urged fundamental changes.	Russia set to launch Proton-M rocket with U.S. telecoms satellite A Proton-M carrier rocket with the U.S. telecommunications satellite Echostar 14 will be launched on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Life in ruins: Chile after the earthquake The people of the town of Cobquecura in Chile leave their destroyed houses, take their families and go to live in the mountains. An earthquake took place there on March 16: four strong quakes measuring 6.6 and 6.7 were registered.	OPEC: history, structure, functions OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, id an international organization uniting most of the world's petroleum exporting countries

		21/03/2010 Fire at the business center in northern Moscow
		18/03/2010 The Honor Guard Battalion starts preparing for the Victory Parade

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