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...Relations between Russia and Georgia grew strained even in the Soviet Union's last years when the then-Soviet Republic elected an ardent nationalist as president. The rift intensified during the breakup of the Soviet Union, when the Russian military helped Ossetian and Abkhaz separatists. And relations have deteriorated to a breaking point since the current government of Mikheil Saakashvili came to power in a popular uprising two years...
...scene at the new school is about as close to normal as you get in Beslan. A year on, the small North Ossetian town remains deeply wounded?and bitterly divided. Survivors are still struggling with grief and anger, physical and psychological pain. Vitriolic disputes have broken out between survivors and the families of those who died, with allegations of cowardice sprayed on walls and lives ruined by whispering campaigns. Lidia Tsaliyeva, the school's 73-year-old principal, has been a main target. Fellow hostages say she played a heroic role during the ordeal, but others have made her into...
...town. Many Russians were profoundly shaken by the television footage of dead and terribly injured children. And the Kremlin's failure to protect its people was another blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough, take-charge leader. For Stanislav Kesayev, deputy speaker of the North Ossetian regional parliament and a critic of the Kremlin's handling of Beslan, the chaos surrounding the school seizure and the botched rescue attempt is symptomatic of the way Russian officials treat ordinary people as "cattle." "I teach law," says Kesayev, who heads a local inquiry into the siege. "I tell...
...Spurned GEORGIA President Mikheil Saakashvili unveiled an autonomy plan for the breakaway republic of South Ossetia as part of his efforts to reunite the country. Under the proposal, the province would have the right to elect its own local parliament, with control over education, policing and social policies. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity immediately rejected the plan; the republic has been effectively self-governing since the early 1990s and has close ties with Russia. A Breach of the Peace SUDAN U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was "deeply disturbed" by an attack near the town of Shangil Tobaya...
...state of emergency in Tbilisi, but it has not lessened the danger of civil war breaking out in other parts of Georgia, especially in the western regions, where armed Gamsakhurdia supporters have already challenged the new regime. The coup leaders also face difficulties with the republic's restive South Ossetian and Abkhasian minorities, who are pressing for their own independence...