A group of more than 30 terrorists seized Beslan’s School Number One on the morning of September 1, 2004, kidnapping over 1,000 people, including small children BESLAN, September 3. /TASS/. The ...

BESLAN, Russia -- The city of Beslan in Russia's North Caucasus region of North Ossetia is marking the 20th anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in Russian ...

“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 ...

A Russian judge said on Tuesday the only surviving member of the group that seized a school and 1,300 hostages in the town of Beslan in 2004 had committed an act of terrorism, as he began reading his ...

The world began to change on September 1, 2004, the day the Russia-held-captive ordeal began in a little school in a little southern town called Beslan. When it ended on September 4 after an agonizing ...

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.

The name Beslan remains synonymous with horror. It is the name of the southern Russian town where a school siege in 2004 ended with the deaths of more than 300 hostages - half of them children. Yet ...

In Beslan, a city in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, militants seized a school and took 1,200 hostages in 2004. The standoff lasted 53 hours, during which hostages were tortured, terrorized and ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that there had been “serious failings” in the Russian authorities’ handling of a 2004 terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, where ...

ROME, February 6. /TASS/. San Marino’s Minister of Labor Alessandro Bevitori has officially nominated the Mothers of Beslan public organization for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ennio Bordato, Italian ...