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A Beslan commemoration ceremony in St. Petersburg on August 28 (epa)
 
 
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Beslan Three Years On
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A Beslan commemoration ceremony in St. Petersburg on August 28 (epa)A soldier carries a baby who was among a small group of hostages released on September 2, 2004 (epa)A boy cries after being released from captivity on September 3, 2004 (epa)A television grab of the end of the seige in Beslan, September 3, 2004 (epa)Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting victims of the hostage taking in Beslan on September 4, 2004 (TASS)Federation Council Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Torshin presenting preliminary findings of a parliamentary investigation of Beslan on December 28, 2005 (AFP)Ella Kesayeva, chairwoman of Voice of Beslan, speaking to RFE/RL in December 2006 (RFE/RL)President Putin meeting with representatives of the Mothers of Beslan Committee in Moscow on September 2, 2005 (epa)Nurpashi Kulayev, the only surviving hostage taker, was sentenced to life in prison on May 26, 2006 (TASS)Beslan relatives demonstrate outside the Kulayev trial in May 2006, holding anti-Putin placards (epa)Relatives of Beslan victims in court in Vladikavkaz during the trial of Nuripashi Kulayev (epa)A memorial service in the ruined gymnasium of Beslan School No. 1 on September 1, 2006 (TASS)A woman looks at photos of the Beslan victims while visiting the ruined school in May (AFP)Relatives of Beslan victims erupt in court after police officers convicted of negligence were pardoned in May (AFP)The cemetery in Beslan where the victims were buried (epa file photo)