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President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called the Beslan hostage crisis \"an attack on our country.\" \"What has happened now is an inhuman, unprecedentedly cruel terrorist crime. It is not a challenge to the president, parliament, or government.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to close the North Ossetian sector of the Russian state border at a Saturday session in Beslan. The session was partly televised by the Russian Channel One. \"Back in Moscow, I issued orders on further actions to find all who are involved in the terrorist attack, I ordered to block the city, to close the state border on the North Ossetia - Alaniya sector, to conduct searches for people involved in the terrorist act and to close the republic\'s administrative border,\" Putin said.
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Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree pardoning 266 prisoners, including Alikram Gumbatov, who in June 1993 declared an independent Talysh-Mughan Republic on Azerbaijan\'s southeastern border with Iran. Gumbatov was apprehended in December 1993 but escaped from jail nine months later. He was recaptured and sentenced to death in February 1996 for crimes against the state; that sentence was subsequently commuted to life imprisonment.
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Kamal Kharrazi, foreign minister of Iran, visited President Niyazov Thursday for a broad range of talks. He was accompanied by Mehdi Safari, deputy foreign minister of Iran and Khatemi’s special envoy on Caspian affairs.The sides discussed matters of bilateral and regional interest.

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