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A tense standoff continued Thursday night around a school in Beslan, North Ossetia that was seized Wednesday by an armed group, some with bombs strapped to their bodies. The attackers, who hold 300 to 400 students, teachers and parents hostage, have vowed to kill 50 children for any one of their comrades killed. |
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Terror gripped Russia on Thursday as citizens asked themselves when the wave of attacks suffered over the last fortnight would end. They woke up to an unresolved hostage crisis in a school in North Ossetia that started only a day after a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a Moscow metro station. |
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The Central Election Commission has been earmarked as one of the parts of the federal government that will move to St. Petersburg, local news agencies reported Tuesday quoting anonymous sources in the presidential administration. The move would assist the commission to be more independent of the politicians based in Moscow, the reports said. |
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