Another crisis brews in Russia
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ATTACKERS WEARING suicide-bomb belts seized a school in a Russian region bordering Chechnya on Wednesday and were holding hundreds of hostages, reportedly including 200 children.
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After the Beslan school slaughter, the Kremlin's handling of the siege comes under fire. Putin backs an inquiry and promises to crack down on the terrorists. What went wrong -- and what's coming next
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President Vladimir V. Putin added fresh uncertainty today into the question of who might succeed him.
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Letter from Moscow: Nobody knows for sure, but the backdrop for the deadly turn Russian politics has taken in recent months is the slow onset of a succession struggle
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Some of the international challenges facing Russia's next leader:
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For Russians, the Kremlin&#39;s initial response to last Tuesday&#39;s nearly simultaneous plane crashes seemed all too familiar: another example of President Vladimir Putin&#39;s state of denial over the unflattering reality of the war in Chechnya.
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The EU Commission crisis prompts Russia to postpone this week's talks with EU leaders.
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Pessimism and anger pervaded the Russian press on Thursday as the siege at a North Ossetian school entered its second day, with one paper taking the government to task for its apparent inability to deal with the crisis.
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Russia said Thursday it would expel four British diplomats in an escalating conflict, but President Vladimir Putin sought to calm what he called a "mini-crisis" over his refusal to extradite a suspect in the murder of a Kremlin critic in London.
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Violent street clashes usher in a year of elections and call into question the claim that eight years of Putin rule has created stability in Russia
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Russia recalled its ambassador from  neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of  some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the  detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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Police have raided Georgian businesses in Moscow after Russia cut transport links with its southern neighbor, escalating a crisis between the two states.
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American courts came into direct conflict with Russia yesterday, after Russia insisted it would push on with plans to sell off the main chunk of stricken oil giant Yukos
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Russia recalled its ambassador from   neighboring Georgia on Thursday and ordered the evacuation of   some of its officials, escalating a crisis sparked by the   detention of four Russian army officers on spying charges.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia was concerned by the West's attempts to influence the situation in Ukraine, where allegations of vote fraud have sparked a political crisis that has brought the rival candidates' supporters into the streets.
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Russia on Monday requested an emergency  conference to discuss the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE)  Treaty, an agreement the Kremlin says it may withdraw from  because NATO countries are flouting it.
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The latest turn in the Russian poisoning saga carries ominous signs for the West.