How an attempt by Islamic militants to pressure Moscow and ratchet up ethnic tensions in the Caucasus led to the seizure of a school and the taking of more than a thousand hostages Russia has a long and painful history of terrorism. From political assassinations in the 19th century to lone-wolf attacks in the 1980s, it has encountered all manners of horror. However, the most brutal attacks were carried out in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Islamist militants. The Beslan school siege in

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