In September 2004, the world watched in horror as more than 330 people -- half of them schoolchildren -- died in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. Now, two years on, locals are coping one day at a time.
Shadow of a mosque in Kazan (AFP) August 31, 2006 -- Officials and religious leaders from Russia and more than a dozen Islamic countries today opened a conference that organizers say is aimed at deepening dialogue.
PRAGUE, August 31, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- For a filmmaker, the Beslan siege seems like an irresistible story.
Aleksandr Koptsev on trial in March (ITAR-TASS) August 31, 2006 -- Prosecutors have asked the Moscow City Court to sentence to 16 years in prison a man who stabbed nine worshippers at a Moscow synagogue.
Members of the crew aboard the crashed Russian passenger plane were buried on August 30 (ITAR-TASS) August 31, 2006 -- Russia's prime minister, Mikhail Fradkov, today ordered his deputy, Sergei Ivanov, to take charge of efforts to improve flight safety.
PRAGUE, August 31, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Today is the deadline for the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report in New York on Iran's degree of compliance with demands it stop uranium enrichment. The IAEA is expected to submit a negative report since Iran has given no sign of heeding the UN's calls.
Igor Gubkin in court today (ITAR-TASS) August 31, 2006 -- The Moscow City Court today sentenced the self-declared former leader of a radical leftist group to 19 years in prison for blowing up a monument of Tsar Nicholas II and preparing to blow up a monument of Peter the Great in Moscow in 1997.
August 31, 2006 -- The U.S. State Department says major powers are expected to convene early next week to discuss sanctions against Iran if it fails to comply with UN demands to end its uranium enrichment program.
Leonid Brezhnev's daughter, Galina, died in 1998 at the age of 69 (ITAR-TASS) August 30, 2006 -- Igor Kio, the former husband of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev's only daughter, has died, aged 62.
Boris Yeltsin (right) and Aslan Maskhadov at peace talks in the Kremlin on August 18, 1996 (ITAR-TASS) PRAGUE, August 30, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- On August 6, 1996, as OSCE Grozny Mission head Tim Guldimann was seeking to mediate talks between Chechen resistance fighters loyal to acting President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and the Russian military, the Chechen forces launched a major attack on Grozny, taking control of the city within days.
PRAGUE, August 30, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Since the beginning of the first war in Chechnya in 1994, Russia has witnessed many horrific terrorist incidents from subway and aircraft explosions to mass hostage takings. Below RFE/RL presents an annotated timeline of major terrorist attacks in Russia.
As European and Russian leaders face diverse populations with large Muslim components, they might be tempted to explore the lessons of Russian history. In a new book titled "For Prophet And Tsar," Stanford University historian Robert Crews argues that the Russian Empire's ability to win broad support among its Muslim populations contributed to its relative longevity and stability. In the 18th century, Catherine the Great launched a policy that enshrined religious tolerance and actively co-opted Muslim authorities.
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