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Beslan

is a town located in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania of Russia and is the administrative center of the Pravoberezhny District. The population in 2002 was about 33,600, making Beslan the third largest town in North Ossetia behind Vladikavkaz and Mozdok. The town is located about 10 miles (15 km) north of Vladikavkaz, at 43°12' N, 44°34' E.

Beslan is an important railway junction, situated on the main line between Rostov-on-Don and Baku, and is the starting point of a branch line to Vladikavkaz. It is an industrial-agricultural town dominated by a large corn processing plant established in the 1940s.

The town was founded in 1847 by migrants from elsewhere in Ossetia and was named Beslanykau ("the settlement of Beslan") after a local lord, Beslan Tulatov. In official use, though, the town was known after Tulatov's surname as Tulatovo or Tulatovskoye. It was renamed Iriston (Ossetia) in 1941 and in 1950, when the rapidly industrialising town was unified into a single municipality, it was renamed as Beslan.

On September 1, 2004, Beslan's Middle School Number One was seized by armed militants. The siege ended on September 3 with a bloody shootout between the terrorists and Russian security forces. See Beslan hostage crisis for more details.

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Two years ago, at a symposium on Supporting Victims of terrorism at the United Nations, I met a mother and child who survived the infamous attack in Beslan. ...
... a Cedar Park Christian organization that goes to places most people only read about in tragic news articles: Darfur, Sudan; Beslan, Russia, ...
The 2004 Beslan school crisis, which killed at least 334 people, solidified Moscow's demonizing narrative of Chechnya as "evil" and Russia as "defensiveness ...
"Police detained natives of Kabardino-Balkaria Beslan and Aslan Margushev, aged 22 and 26, and natives of Dagestan Makhach Akavov, 30, and Islam Khartashev, ...

Simonyan won a medal of honor from the Defense Ministry for a September 2004 report on the Beslan hostage crisis and another from the South Ossetian ...
London -- Kari Skogland is lined up to direct "Beslan," a movie based on the infamous school siege in North Ossetia, Russia, in 2004. ...
Beslan Butba, the leader of the Party for the Economic Development of Abkhazia (ERA), was a deputy in the republic parliament not long ago and is now one of ...
... months a series of suicide bombings ended a four-year break in the rebel tactic, which had last been used at the Beslan school hostage-taking in 2004. ...
Six years ago they were enjoying another ordinary day at the Beslan School in Russia when their lives were turned upside down. On September 1, 2004, ...
On 1st September 2004, the Beslan school hostage crisis began when a group of armed terrorists, demanding an end to the Second Chechen War, took more than ...
It is against this background of persecution and extermination that the political and violent struggles in Beslan and Grozni have been enacted, ...
If militants seized a large public school in the Midwest, as they did in Beslan, Russia, the hostage crisis would almost certainly force KSM's release. ...
In the North Ossetian town of Beslan, Putin met the head of North Ossetia, Taimuraz Mamsurov, and in the capital of Ingushetia, Magas, he held a longer ...
Tuesday's seminar focused on the Beslan, Russia school siege in 2004 and lessons learned from it. The Beslan siege occurred when militants took more than ...
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin looks on during a visit to the city of Beslan in the republic... Putin said in televised remarks that work on the ...
The head of the Public Council on Morality stated that terrorists who took hostage schoolchildren in Beslan a few years ago, confessed after they were ...
An eight-year-old girl was killed and her two brothers injured when they hit an explosive device in the south Russian city of Beslan, site of the 2004 ...
An explosion has killed one child and injured two others in Beslan, the North Caucasus town bereaved by a 2004 school hostage siege, Russian media say. ...
Moscow (Reuters) - A girl was killed on monday by a grenade she found in Beslan, scene of a mass hostage-taking led by Chechen rebels in 2004, ...
In Beslan, relatives of those killed in the siege of Middle School No. 1 last September blocked the main highway across the North Caucasus for three days in ...
Founded in response to the tragic Beslan school siege in 2004, the charity provides playgrounds for Russian children: 39 have been built so far, ...
Born and raised in Beslan, Dzagoev made his Russia debut aged 18 in October 2008 and has been showing a global audience in the UEFA Champions League this ...
History has shown that the rebels are not shy about the targets they choose, whether it was the mass murder of children in Beslan (9/1/2004), ...
In a highly criticised 2004 reform, which followed closely the horrendous Beslan school hostage crisis, the then Russian president Vladimir Putin abolished ...
In 2005, Putin, then Russia's president, scrapped the direct election of governors on the pretext of imposing order in the wake of the September 2004 Beslan ...
... including the Dubrovka theatre in Moscow and the school in Beslan; the brave work of Journalists like the late Anna Politkovskaya; and the failure of ...
... by a regional parliament since former President Vladimir Putin abolished direct gubernatorial elections in 2004 following the Beslan school attack. ...
... who was on a wanted list, Beslan Khatsiyev, Beslan Makhauri, Shamil Gadamauri and resident of the village of Orzhonikidzevskaya Khasmagomed Sultygov. ...
When I look back upon my life, it is very is easy to see periods marked by significant events occurring at the time; Tragedies like the Beslan hostage ...
Russian-born supermodel Natalia Vodianova was beset by grief following the atrocious school attacks in Beslan, Russia in 2004 where 186 children were killed ...
... which might be filled with Abkhazians playing in the championship of Russia and Krasnodar Krai, including brothers, Ruslan and Beslan Ajinjal. ...
Every human being should also read this, his National Magazine Award-winning piece (in the style of John Hersey's Hiroshima) from Beslan for Esquire. ...
... been seen at Ground Zero in the days following the 9/11 attacks, the subway attacks in London as well as the massacre in the Russian city of Beslan. ...
Safety and security means in 2010, you can be pretty sure that what happened in Beslan in 2004 won't happen in your child's school. ...
In 2004, as Anna made her way to Beslan, where armed terrorists were holding more than 1000 school children and adults captive, she had one of her most ...
The Zemo Larsi checkpoint was first blocked on September 1, 2004 during the terrorist attack on Beslan School No 1. It reopened in October but was then ...
... and target would be India's nuclear or IT installations or it would involves hostage taking of schoolchildren as the Chechens terrorists did in Beslan. ...
In 2004, the editor of Moscow business weekly Kompaniya was fired over editorial policy shortly after criticising Mr Putin's handling of the Beslan school ...
... believed to have been responsible for the 2004 attack on a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, in which 385 people, mostly children, were killed. ...
... talent than hustle, and convene today in the afternoon in order to discuss a 2006 Esquire piece on the Chechen terrorist takeover of a school in Beslan. ...


 


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