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Caucasus
2004
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| Caucasus, 2004 Timeline | Saturday, June 21 | Author |
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| US-educated lawyer has claimed victory in early presidential elections |
New President Saakashvili sworn in The 36-year-old said his first task will be putting an end to government corruption. Powell and Ivanov attended
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3 die in fierce fighting The servicemen have been killed in rebel South Ossetia as the central government tries to bring to bring the breakaway region
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7 dead in school attack Armed attackers stormed a school in southern Russia and took at least 150 children, parents and teachers hostage
Standoff school siege| A tense standoff between authorities and attackers who seized at least 100 hostages, possibly as many as 400 |
School siege: '26 freed'| Armed militants were holding more than 300 hostages for a second day |
Blasts heard at school 2 loud explosions have jolted the area where hostage-takers have been holding 350 children, parents and teachers
Siege goes into third day Hundreds of people, among them children, have spent a 2nd night as hostages of an armed gang
'100 bodies' in siege school Troops stormed the building in a bid to end a terrifying hostage crisis. Special forces were mopping up pockets of resistance
350 dead after troops storm school
Map of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:North_ossetia_map.png 1,200 hostages might have been inside the Beslan school. Hundreds of people were injured
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Putin: Siege force not planned| Russian President arrived in an unexpected visit to the siege town and shut crisis region borders |
Siege toll tops 350 In a nationally televised speech, President Putin denounced the massacre as 'an attack on our country'
Suspect: We wanted to start a war The man said the attack was ordered by Chechen rebel leader Maskhadov and Chechen warlord Basayev
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