The Beslan school massacre began on September 1, 2004 when Chechen rebels seized School Number One in the southern Russian city and took more than 1,100 people hostage. It ended 52 hours later in ...
The Kremlin on Thursday slammed as “absolutely unacceptable” a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that there were “serious failings” in Russia’s handling of the 2004 Beslan school siege. “It ...
BESLAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia broke European human rights law by using excessive force to storm a school seized by Islamist militants in 2004, causing a high number of hostages to be killed, the ...