“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 ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 28 -- In the month before the Beslan school siege in which 331 hostages were killed last year, Russian security services received intelligence that terrorists might try to seize a school ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Beslan school siege. On September 1, 2004, armed Chechen rebels took approximately 1,200 children and adults hostage at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, at ...

Woman mourn today at the grave of a victim of the siege (epa) MOSCOW, September 1, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Beslan today marked the second anniversary of the start of the school siege that took the lives of ...

* Victims on small stipends, poor healthcare five years on * Relatives of dead say authorities ignore calls for justice By Kazbek Basayev BESLAN, Russia, Sept 1 (Reuters) - With jet-black hair pulled ...

MOSCOW — Authorities in southern Russia were warned of a possible attack on a school a day before 1,128 hostages were seized at a school in Beslan, but took no preventive measures even though the ...