U.S. "shocked", Kremlin silent as journalist killed
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The United States said it was "shocked and profoundly saddened" by the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin.
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Shocked by the deaths of more than 300 people in the Beslan hostage crisis, Russia today began two days of official mourning as the North Ossetian town continued to bury the victims of the siege.
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Russians are observing a day of mourning Thursday for the 89 victims of two nearly simultaneous plane crashes Tuesday. Investigators say they have no evidence to prove whether the crashes late on Tuesday were caused by terrorism.
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Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the war in rebel Chechnya, was found shot dead on Saturday at her apartment block in central Moscow, news agencies reported.
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Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London ...Comment
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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BESLAN, Russia - President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday a tough response to what he called an "all-out war" by terrorists against Russia, as the body count from the school hostage-taking rose to more than 340 dead and some relatives still searched for their loved ones amid the confusion.    A grim-faced Putin addressed the nation on television after a pre-dawn visit to the scene of the hostage-taking in Beslan...
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Russian police have arrested a third  Chechen in their investigation into the murder of a U.S.  reporter who wrote about the volatile region and charted the  fortunes of the rich, local media reported Friday.
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Belarussian police said Monday they had arrested several people, including ethnic Chechens, in connection with the murder in Russia of a U.S. reporter.
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A journalist who fell to his death from a fifth-story window had received threats while gathering material for a report claiming Russia planned to provide sophisticated weapons to Syria and Iran, his newspaper said Tuesday.
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A journalist killed last week apparently was not the main target of the attack, authorities said Monday.
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Americans stood in silence and world   leaders paid their respects on Monday five years after   hijackers crashed airliners into Washington and New York icons   of U.S. finance and government in the deadliest attack in U.S.   history.
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MOSCOW, Feb. 15 -- Two men accused of murdering American journalist Paul Klebnikov failed to show up in court Thursday, the first day of their retrial for the July 2004 killing.
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Â· Women had accused Putin of complicity in deaths Â· Kremlin 'using extremism law to silence critics'
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MOSCOW -- A military correspondent for Russia's top business daily died after falling from a fifth-story window, and some in the news media speculated Monday that he might have been killed for his critical reporting.
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Russia on Monday began an official two-day mourning period for more than 300 children and adults killed Friday in the bloody end of a hostage crisis at a school in Beslan in southern Russia.
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BESLAN, Russia Russians stunned by last week&#39;s school hostage siege are observing a national day of mourning for the more than 350 people killed.