Beslan school survivor’s tale marks 10th anniversary of Russian terrorist attack. SHE was just 13. It was a normal, day - a new school year. But 10 years ago today her life and those of 1200 ...

Overview of the Beslan Attack. The Beslan school siege, which began on September 1, 2004, in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, stands as one of the most tragic school attacks in history.

In April 2017, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case brought by victims of the Beslan attack and their families that the Russian authorities’ response to the Beslan hostage-taking ...

Having arrived by stealth at night in 2004, just after the attack, the Russian leader waited until August 20, 2024, to officially return to Beslan. He knelt in the town's immense cemetery.

There was no connection whatsoever to the Beslan attack. When parliament gathered to vote on the move, opposition politicians picketed the building warning of a creeping dictatorship.

President Vladimir Putin faced public anger over the Beslan tragedy, which took place a few months into his second term in office. He cast it as an attack on "all of us", staged by forces outside ...

Russia on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the Beslan school massacre, when over 330 people -- more than half of them children -- died in a hostage siege in the country's deadliest attack in ...