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International Aid to Hostage Victims Starts Arriving in Russia
The world community has rushed to aid families and victims of the North Ossetian school hostage crisis with the United States, Canada, Italy, Ukraine and even Australia setting aside funds and humanitarian aid for the Russian Federation. (06-SEP-04)
Under Siege School May Hold as Many as 1500 Hostages
A woman released from the school in North Ossetia where militants are holding hundreds of children hostage for a third day said there could be over 1000 hostages, instead of the officially announced 320. This came as federal authorities resumed talks with the rebels Friday morning. (03-SEP-04)
World Responds to N. Ossetia Hostage Crisis
As the hostage crisis at a school in southern the Russian Federation entered its second day, authorities in North Ossetia revealed that the death toll stands at seven. Offers of help and condemnation of the school seizure have come from around the world. (02-SEP-04)
Gunmen Take Over 200 Hostages in North Ossetia School
A group of about 30 gunmen has seized a school in North Ossetia with up to 400 children, Russia’s internal republic bordering war-torn the Chechen Republic and the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. (01-SEP-04)
Russia Wants UN Security Council Session on Terror Attacks
Russian Federation has called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council over the series of recent terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation. (01-SEP-04)
Russia: Summit with Putin Should Address Human Rights
Amnesty International, one of the biggest human rights protection organization has appealed to the Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Shreder, before his official visit to the Russian Federation to put a pressure on the President Vladimir Putin. (29-AUG-04)
Russian civil rights groups see threat in Putin oversight
The State Duma is to consider a series of regulations that could restrict or heavily tax funding for Russia´s NGOs. Veronika Marchenko (picture), the Head of the Mother´s Right Foundation – member organisation of the Russian Research Center for Human Rights, spends much of her time locked in struggle with the Russian government. (27-AUG-2004)
Supreme Court upholds sentence of scientist jailed for espionage
Today the Russian Supreme Court upheld a sentence the Moscow City Court earlier handed down on Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was found guilty of spying. The Moscow City Court on April 7 sentenced Sutyagin to 15 years in prison. The court ruled that his term be counted from the date of his detention in Obninsk in the Kaluga region on October 29, 1999. (17-AUG-04)
Open appeal to the President of Russian Federation before the start of the 28th Olympiads in Athens
Open appeal of the President of National Olympic Committee of the Chechen Republic, sport-master of international class Ruslan Badalov to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. (13-AUG-04)