Russia's Troubled Caucasus: Five Years After Beslan -- Time Magazine
Five years ago this week, separatist rebels attacked a small school in Beslan in North Ossetia. On the third day of the attack, at least 330 people were killed, more than half of them children. The attack was said to have altered the whole arc of not only the horrific conflict in nearby Chechnya but also the presidency of Vladimir Putin. Beslan was supposed to have given Moscow resolve. North Ossetia — indeed, the whole of the North Caucasus, between the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian Sea to the east — was supposed to be tranquil, harmonious, subdued. But that's not what has happened.
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