"The Beslan attack took place against a backdrop of five years of widespread, persistent, and largely unpunished human rights violations by Russian troops against civilians in Chechnya as well as ...

This Friday, September 1, marks the second anniversary of Russia’s “9/11” — the atrocious seizure of more than 1,128 hostages in a Beslan school, which left more than 330 — most of them children — ...

Nothing can justify the senseless slaughter of innocent men, women and children. Too often, explanations and excuses dominate public discourse and gloss over the tragedy itself. While young life is ...

MOSCOW, Sept. 1 -- The people of the southern Russian town of Beslan began three days of remembrance Thursday to mark the anniversary of a school siege by separatist fighters that left 331 people dead ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAPHIC IMAGES: On the 10th anniversary of a school siege in Russia's Beslan, that killed more than 330 people, mothers of victims ...

Piercing wails cut through the air as grief-stricken residents of this southern Russian town held a moment of silence Saturday, a year to the day after hundreds of their relatives and neighbors died ...

The Southern Russian community of Beslan was left with an enormous loss after the attack by insurgents on a school that left hundreds of people dead, most of them children. But a group called The ...

BESLAN, Russia (Reuters) - Mourners lit candles and placed icons on Sunday beneath photographs of the schoolchildren, teachers and parents who died 20 years ago when Islamist gunmen staged the ...

As they were approaching the first anniversary of the schoolhouse horror that ripped their lives apart, the mothers of Beslan were told to go to the cemetery where their children are buried. They were ...

Russia has accepted a European Court of Human Rights ruling instructing it to pay $3.5 million to the victims of the 2004 Beslan terrorist attack. The ECHR says Russia ignored intelligence indicating ...

“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 ...