A group of more than 30 terrorists seized Beslan’s School Number One on the morning of September 1, 2004, kidnapping over 1,000 people, including small children BESLAN, September 3. /TASS/. The ...

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MOSCOW -- On September 1, 2004, School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, welcomed children back after the summer break. There were nerves and excitement as a crowd of 1,128 parents, teachers, and pupils ...

Russia was responsible for “serious failings” in its handling of the 2004 Beslan school siege by Chechen rebels in which over 330 people were killed, many of them children, the European Court of Human ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

RFE/RL coverage and analysis of events in Russia's war-ravaged republic. For news and analysis on Russia by e-mail, subscribe to "RFE/RL Russia Report." 1 A Beslan commemoration ceremony in St.

New video footage has emerged that shows the chaotic and brutal end to the Beslan school massacre was caused by Russian security forces and not Chechen fighters. That is the claim being made by a ...

“I expected the death penalty, and it is not right he was sentenced to life in prison,” Rita Sidakova, a leader of the group Mothers of Beslan, said in an Associated Press report. “He is guilty of the ...

Russia failed to prevent a 2004 attack on a school in the town of Beslan and then overreacted by using grenades, tanks and flamethrowers to end a three-day siege that killed more than 330 people, the ...

Court: There were "serious shortcomings" in the Russian investigation into the attack The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that there had been “serious failings” in the Russian ...