Word: beslan
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...Chechen terrorists were the likely suspects. Six days later, a car bomb destroyed the entrance to a Moscow subway station—on the same line I had taken the day before. The day I arrived in St. Petersburg, a band of terrorists took over a middle school in Beslan, a small southern town. And by the time I left the country, 360 children, parents and teachers were dead, many of them shot in the back as they ran from the school’s collapsing gymnasium...
...Russia’s young experiment with democracy looks more doomed than ever in the hands of an increasingly power-hungry ex-KGB officer, another Russian strong-man. America’s post-9/11 path has been ultimately less anti-democratic than Russia’s trajectory after Beslan because liberty has been a value of our nation state as long as it has existed. Russian history is marked by a nearly continuous adherence to despots, and traditions die hard...
Russian Regret How Russia blocked attempts to negotiate in North Ossetia. Was there another way out of the tragedy in Beslan...
...Russia reels from the hostage crisis at School No. 1 in Beslan, in the republic of North Ossetia, the repercussions continue. Russian President Vladimir Putin has furiously blamed Islamic terrorists for the tragedy, defended his policies on Chechnya and, under pressure, called for a parliamentary investigation of the incident. But could quicker action to negotiate with the terrorists have averted the carnage that left at least 338 dead...
...Maskhadov, the deposed successionist President of Chechnya. Dzasokhov told TIME that he talked to Maskhadov's London-based representative Akhmed Zakayev, and asked them to intervene. Zakayev, who says Maskhadov was "horrified at this atrocity," pledged cooperation and asked for guarantees of Maskhadov's safety when he came to Beslan. When they next talked, a day later, Dzasokhov said he needed two more hours to work out the details. It was too late: 40 minutes later, a bomb went off in the school and the slaughter began...