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Beslan siege remembered seven years on

The Tree of Grief, a monument to the Beslan hostage tragedy

19:18 01/09/2011

Russia marks on Thursday the seventh anniversary of the start of the Beslan school siege, the second deadliest terrorist attack outside of the Middle East in modern times.

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Monument to Beslan victims unveiled
17:00 02/09/2011 CHERKESSK, September 2 (RIA Novosti)
A monument to the victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege was unveiled in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Karachai-Circassia on Friday.
Beslan tragedy, September 2004
15:31 03/09/2010
Six years ago, on September 3, 2004, terrorists who took hostage over 1,000 people at a school №1 in Beslan, North Ossetia were finally liquidated.
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20:29 02/09/2010
Russia on Thursday held a series of events marking the sixth anniversary of Beslan tragedy in the North Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, which claimed a total of 335 lives.
Memorial to Beslan massacre victims unveiled in Moscow
14:47 02/06/2010
A memorial to the victims of the Beslan tragedy, which took place on September 1, 2004, was unveiled in central Moscow at a square in front of the Church of Nativity of the Theotokos in Kulishki.
Moscow unveils Tsereteli sculpture commemorating Beslan victims
19:55 01/06/2010
A monument by controversial Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate the those killed in the 2004 Beslan school siege was unveiled in downtown Moscow on Tuesday
Russian soccer players mourn Beslan tragedy
18:50 09/05/2010
Soccer players from Spartak Moscow laid flowers on Sunday at a memorial in the school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where hundreds died in a siege by terrorists in September 2004.
Fear and anger in Beslan
23:22 03/09/2009
At the roadside entrance to the burnt-out shell of School No. 1 stands a tap, where children who escaped the explosions and gunfire in the school gym five years ago ran for water.
Over 5,000 attend remembrance ceremony for Beslan victims
16:01 03/09/2009
Over 5,000 people attended a service on Thursday in Russia's North Caucasus town of Beslan to remember those who were killed in a school siege five years ago.
Requiem service to be held for Beslan victims
10:34 03/09/2009
A requiem service for the more than 300 people killed when Chechen separatists seized a school in Russia's North Caucasus town of Beslan will be held on Thursday.
A school that is forever silent. Remembering victims of Beslan hostage crisis: five years later
17:07 02/09/2009
Beslan lessons five years on
19:44 01/09/2009
MOSCOW. (Maxim Krans, RIA Novosti political commentator) - On September 1, 2004, The North Caucasus town of Beslan became know to the world for a tragic reason. A terrorist group took hostage 1,128 people who gathered at a local school on that day; two days later, 319 hostages including 187 children were killed in the storming of the building. Hundreds of schoolchildren and their relatives were injured.
North Ossetia tightens school security on Beslan anniversary
11:41 01/09/2009
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.
Time and distance unable to heal former Beslan hostages
18:50 03/09/2008
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
19:17 01/09/2008
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
13:08 01/09/2008
Russia marks on Monday the fourth anniversary of the Beslan school tragedy during which 331 people died, including 186 children.
Gunmen leader, Beslan siege mastermind killed in south Russia
17:09 17/06/2007
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.
Police failed to prevent 2004 Beslan school siege - report
11:04 22/12/2006
Local police did not take appropriate measures to prevent a terrorist attack on a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan in September 2004, a parliamentary investigation commission said Friday.
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Alexy II commemorates Beslan school tragedy victims
16:17 03/09/2006
Beslan tragedy to remain our common pain - Putin
16:00 03/09/2006
President Vladimir Putin said Sunday the Beslan school hostage-taking tragedy, which claimed 331 lives, including 186 children, would always remain the country's common pain.
North Ossetia commemorates Beslan school tragedy victims
14:29 03/09/2006
Russia remembers victims of Beslan school tragedy
10:33 01/09/2006
Russia commemorates the victims of a hostage-taking massacre at a school in south Russia, which claimed 331 lives, including 186 children, two years ago.

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Russia commemorate Beslan victims

On September 3, 2004, terrorists who took hostage over 1,000 people at a school №1 in Beslan, North Ossetia were finally liquidated. More than 300 people, most of them children, died in the attack. The hostages spent three terrible days in the school.