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Beslan school tragedy

July 2023

  • Khamzat Vagonchik Shepherds of the North Caucasus: resourceful, tough, my constant helpers

    Book of the day
    High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt review – one man and a mountain range

    This record of an extraordinary 1,000-mile trek across the mountainous southern Russian republics of the Caucasus uncovers a brutal history that resonates today

April 2017

  • People commemorate the victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege

    Russia could have done more to prevent Beslan school siege, court finds

    European court of human rights says security at school was not increased despite prior warning of attack

January 2017

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    Us/Them review – an evocative retelling of the Beslan school siege

  • Us/Them

    Us/Them: unlikely children's show about terrorism opens at National Theatre

November 2016

  • People gather in the gym of School 1 on 1 September 2016 to commemorate the victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege.

    It’s a mistake to demonise Russia

    Letters: All your editorial can do is blame everything on Russia using the discredited narrative of the hawks in Washington

September 2016

  • People commemorate the victims of Beslan

    New East network
    Beslan mothers detained over anti-Putin protest at ceremony

    Five women taken into custody after wearing T-shirts blaming Russian president for 2004 siege that left 186 children dead

July 2015

  • Pro-Russian fighters begin their assault on Donetsk airport last year. The 300-strong Chechen ‘Death battalion’ was involved in the bloody offensive during its five months in and around Donetsk.

    New East network
    'We like partisan warfare.' Chechens fighting in Ukraine – on both sides

  • Celebrations for the first anniversary of the Crimean treaty signing in Sevastopol, March 18, 2015.

    New East network
    Former Kremlin critic changes tack to launch television station in Donetsk

September 2014

  • Mourners come to School No 1 to remember the victims of the 2004 Beslan school siege

    New East network
    Ten years after Beslan school siege, survivors struggle to make a new life

    Two of Nadezhda Guriyeva’s children were among the 334 people killed after militants stormed their school. She tells RFE/RL how teaching young survivors has helped her carry on

June 2010

  • RUSSIA-ATTACKS-UMAROV

    Moscow seizes Islamic terror chief amid fears for 2014 Winter Olympics

    Ali Taziyev's rebel group planned the Moscow Metro bombing and the Beslan school siege

March 2010

  • Mosow theatre siege

    Russian terror attacks timeline

    This morning's bombing follows attacks in which hundreds have been killed including the Beslan school siege and the Moscow theatre hostage crisis

September 2009

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive: Up to 200 die as siege ends in mayhem

    From the archive, 4 September 2004: All that was left were the ashes. On the floor of the gym at Middle School No 1 yesterday lay the mangled, black detritus from Russia's worst hostage crisis

January 2008

  • Extreme injustice

    Oksana Chelysheva

    Relatives of victims of the Beslan siege have been put on trial for criticising President Putin: all they want is a fair investigation into the atrocity

September 2007

  • Beslan anniversary

    First person
    Beslan remembered

    Primary school teacher Marina Mikhailova survived the Beslan school siege in 2004

June 2007

  • Beslan's closing book

    Timothy Phillips

    Timothy Phillips: A thousand days on, the search for justice after the Russian school siege seems to have come to an abrupt and unsatisfactory end.

July 2006

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