Russia to pray for siege victims
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Russia's Orthodox churches are due to hold services for the many victims of the school siege in North Ossetia.
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Russia on Thursday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious double air disaster, which some fear could have been a terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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BESLAN, Russia - Trains passing a cemetery blew their horns in respect today as Russia began official mourning for the hundreds of victims of what increasingly appeared to have been a well-planned terrorist attack on a southern school.
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Russia on Thursday observed a day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious double air disaster, which some fear could have been a terrorist
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Nuns of Mother Teresa's order marked the seventh anniversary of her death with special prayers for the children who died in Russia's school hostage crisis.
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Pope John Paul II hopes for reconciliation as a precious icon goes back to the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Moscow - More than 100 000 people were expected in central Moscow on Tuesday at a rally to condemn terrorism amid mounting rage across the country over the bloody hostage drama in southern Russia and the government&#39;s handling of it.
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The head of Russia's Orthodox Church offered blessings and prayers on the eve of the Orthodox Christmas Thursday, noting in his traditional holiday greetings that 2004 was a difficult year for Russia
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BESLAN, Russia - A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday for the hundreds of victims of the terrorist school seizure, while in this grief-stricken southern region neighboring Chechnya families continued searching for the missing.    A prosecutor said the hostage-takers belonged to a cell formed by radical Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, the Interfax news agency reported...
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UZLOVAYA, Russia  - Russia on Thursday observed a  day of mourning for at least 89 people who died in a mysterious  double air disaster, which some fear could have been a  terrorist attack ahead of a key election in rebel Chechnya.
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BESLAN: Flags are flying at half-mast across Russia today as the nation begins mourning for 338 people killed when Chechen rebels seized a school.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Mourners prepared on Sunday for  the first funerals of 330 people killed in the bloody battle  that ended the siege of a southern Russian school on Friday --  but others did not know if loved ones had survived.
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Seattle&#39;s Russian community reacted with a mixture of sorrow, anger and frustration yesterday: sorrow for the children who died in the hostage crisis at a school in Beslan, Russia; anger
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The Vatican returned a Russian icon venerated by Pope John Paul II to Moscow on Friday in a gesture aimed at improving strained relations with the Russian Orthodox Church and possibly clearing the way for a visit by the ailing pontiff.
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Two years after a bloody hostage siege at a Moscow theater, survivors and victims' relatives on Tuesday commemorated the tragedy &#151; a precursor to the string of terrorist attacks blamed on Chechen rebels that have sent Russia reeling in recent months.
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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.