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Flowers, candles and portraits of those who died during terrorist attack on a Moscow theater, lay in front of the theater in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Families the 130 people who died in a hostage crisis at a Moscow theater 10 years ago wil Misha Japaridze, Associated Press
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A man stands in front of portraits of victims of a theatre siege in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Families the 130 people who died in a hostage crisis at a Moscow theater 10 years ago will hold a ceremony outside the venue where Chechen militants Misha Japaridze, Associated Press
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Hostages sit with their weapons in the school in Beslan, Russia taken in this undated image from television during the early part of the siege which began on Sept. 1, 2004 and ended with over 300 people dead. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing NTV-Russian Television Channel, File, Associated Press
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Hostages sit on a floor in a gym as a hostage-taker stands with his left foot on a book apparently with a device connected to a chain of explosives in the school in Beslan, Russia taken in this undated image from television during the early part of the s NTV-Russian Television Channel, File, Associated Press
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A woman with flowers stands in front of portraits of victims of a theatre siege in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Families the 130 people who died in a hostage crisis at a Moscow theater 10 years ago will hold a ceremony outside the venue where C Misha Japaridze, Associated Press
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Flowers, candles and portrait of who died during terrorist attack on a Moscow theater, lay in front of the theater in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. Families the 130 people who died in a hostage crisis at a Moscow theater 10 years ago will hold a Misha Japaridze, Associated Press
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Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev is shown in the Botlikh region in 1999. Among terrorist acts directed by Basayev was the seizure of a school in Beslan in 2004, where 331 people died. More than half of them were schoolchildren. Associated Press
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A special forces soldier and a woman carry children last year after the school siege in Beslan, in which 331 died. Sergey Ponomarev, Associated Press
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Taiymuraz Kallagov embraces his daughters, Vika, 13, left, and Olya, 8, at their home in Beslan, Russia, Wednesday. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
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A woman carrying a child walks in the yard of the ruined school in Beslan, Russia, where the violent hostage crisis took place. Itar-Tass, Associated Press
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Roza Khudalova mourns husband Elbrus, who led a folk group at the Beslan school. Alexander Zemlianichenko, Associated Press
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A man carries an injured child who escaped from a school Friday in Beslan, North Ossetia, after commandos stormed it. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
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Ossetian women wait for news near the school seized by attackers in Beslan, North Ossetia. Many of the hostages were children, most of them under 14 years old. Associated Press
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Beslan residents dig graves Sunday for those killed in a school assault. Wails of mourning echoed in the streets of this Russian town. Musa Sadulayev, Associated Press
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Names of hostages who escaped from a seized school are posted outside a hospital in Beslan, Russia, on Saturday. Sergey Ponomarev, Associated Press
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Special forces soldiers evacuate a little girl and a woman, apparently after they escaped from a school that had been seized by attackers wearing suicide-bomb belts in the town of Beslan, about 10 miles north of Vladikavkaz, capital of North Ossetia. Associated Press
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Emergency workers collect bodies outside school in Beslan, North Ossetia. The death toll has reached 340. STR, Associated Press
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A woman touches a portrait of school massacre victim Zelim Chedzhemov, 9, at a cemetery in Beslan, North Ossetia, Monday. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
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Townspeople crowd around the coffins of those killed in the school siege in Beslan, Russia. One-hundred-twenty were buried Monday. Ivan Sekretarev, Associated Press
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A special forces officer helps a woman out of the theater where hundreds of hostages had been held by Chechen rebels. Dmitry Lovetsky, Associated Press Sergei Grits, Associated Press
By Deseret News

Moscow theater siege:

2002: Gassing of theater clouds rescue effort

2002: Chechen leader claims credit for theater takeover

2002: Theater ordeal destroyed a dream

2002: Hostages from theater seeking compensation

2012: Russians mark 10 years since deadly theater siege

Beslan school siege:

2004: Russian school seized

2004: Half of 340 slain are kids

2004: Teen chose to stay with sister in Beslan

2004: Coffins of siege victims fill streets

2004: Russian security officials say 10 of Beslan school raiders identified

2004: Anti-terrorism demonstration draws masses of Russians

2004: Putin vows to strike terrorists; warlord admits school siege

2005: Probe clears handling of Beslan siege

2005: Report blames Russia police

2006: Chechen gets life in prison for '04 Russia school siege

2009: Russians mark 5 years since Beslan school tragedy

Other violence and Chechnya-related stories:

1999: Chechen insurgents slay 250 Russians

1999: War against Chechnya lifts Russian army image

1999: Russians let civilians flee Chechnya

1999: Yeltsin hails offensive in Chechnya

2000: Russians claim inroads in south Chechnya

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2002: Death toll hits 46 in Grozny

2009: Russia: Bomb caused train crash that killed 26

2010: Islamic militants raid Chechen parliament, 6 dead

2012: Russia says it foiled terrorist plot against Sochi

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