it began with a tragedy in the small town of beslan. >> men and women wearing exosive belts attackedhe worst hostage tragedy that russia has ever seen. >> narrator: terrorists seizing a school. >> (speaking russian) (translated): and the plan was that putin would either capitulate, or he would lose his age, his reputation. this was a serious crisis, this was a really serious crisis. >> (speaking on radio) >> narrator: putin wouldn't back down. he ordered his army in. tanks and troops encircled the school. (explosion bangs) and then, an explosion. (sirens blaring) and chaos. (explosions echo) >> the army shelled the school at point-blank range. they fired at it from tanks. >> narrator: putin's troops were armed with rockets, grenade launchers, and flamethrowers. >> a lot of the children who burned alive burned alive because of a fire that raged. >> it turns into this debacle, and the end result is corpses of little children, stacked like firewood. >> more than 320 people were killed, half of them children, in the tragedy in the town of beslan in north ossetia. >> narrator: putin seize

the first two were connected with the tragedy in beslan and the accident at the sayano-shushenskaya hydroelectric the international community should cooperate with the new authorities of afghanistan in order to solve humanitarian problems sergey lavrov spoke about this today in china at a conference of neighboring countries of afghanistan after the hasty withdrawal of the american army, the country was on the verge of survival, but the so-called the collective west is in no hurry to help it sobol's novel about different approaches to the afghan problem, it's time for the world to decide, and although this movement is either under sanctions for terrorist activities and will probably remain in this status for a long time to come. it must be remembered that over 40 million people turned out to be under the rule of the taliban, and in order for their lives to turn into an endless humanitarian catastrophe, which will certainly spill out beyond the borders of afghanistan, the surrounding countries need to somehow build contacts with a scobul international the community should actively cooperate with yo

in 2004, chechen terrorists seized a school in beslan.an 300 were killed, including 186 children in a botched security response. that same year, a new, grisly era began, the lethal poisoning of putin's opponents. some survived, some died gruesome deaths. this as putin stoked his tough guy image for the cameras and changed the face he showed the west. at the 2007 munich security conference, putin blasted nato expansn, and the united states specifically, as threats. >> one state, primarily the united states, has overstepped its national borders in every area, in economy, in politics, humanitarian, and educational policies it imposes on other nations. lisa: it was a stark warning that turned to warfare the next year. russia rolled into breakaway parts of the former soviet republic of georgia, itself hoping to enter nato. soon, putin had a new threat to his power. the russian middle class now wanted a say. tens of thousands of russians took to the streets, joining leaders like alexei navalny to challenge growing repression. they charged rampa