Terror Lesson As Russians Return to School; Chechen Atrocities Serve to Strengthen Putin's Grip
The Herald › September 02, 2004
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IN Russia yesterday, the top story on government-controlled television was cheerful coverage of the first day of the new school year. That sunny report took on a grim irony by mid-morning, with news of attackers seizing hostages at a school.
While government officials optimistically claim that rebellious Chechnya is stabilising, ordinary Russians battered by a week of apparent Chechen-connected violence do not believe the spin but are coping instead with a blend of fear, defiance and fatalism.See the full content of this document
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Terror Lesson As Russians Return to School; Chechen Atrocities Serve to Strengthen Putin's Grip
Few believe the government line that a decade of anarchy and fighting in breakaway Chechnya is over with the election on Sunday of a pro-Kremlin official, Alu Alkhan-ov, as head of the region.
Yet few, even after the atrocities in Beslan, North Ossetia,...See the full content of this document
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