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1. Reuters: Putin pledges tough line, gas still a mystery.
2. AP: Putin Leads Day of Mourning.
3. RIA Novosti: THEATRE TRAGEDY: RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICES WORKED IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THEIR WESTERN COLLEAGUES.
4. RIA Novosti: FATE OF FOREIGN HOSTAGES CLEARED UP.
5. ft.com: Andrew Jack, Russia admits use of anaesthetic gas in siege.
6. New Scientist: Debora MacKenzie, Russian gas may be secret crowd-control weapon.
7. AP: Moscow Siege Shows Dangers of Gases.
8. time.com: Moscow Gas Debacle Leaves Putin Unscathed. TIME's Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge tells TIME.com that Russians have low expectations of their state. But, he warns, viewing Chechen terrorism through the al-Qaeda prism is a dangerous mistake.
9. National Post (Canada): Matthew Fisher, You want tough? You got it. Putin, defter than during Kursk crisis, may gain popularity.
10. Andrei Liakhov: RE:6507- Lagnado&Baron.
11. Moscow Times: Boris Kagarlitsky, Was It Necessary to Storm?
12. Reuters: Moscow siege makes West ask: Could we? Would we?
13. BBC Monitoring: Moscow hostage crisis "shows Russia is on its knees" - Chechen web site.
14. UPI: Sam Vaknin, The Chechen theater ticket.
15. Rossiiskaya Gazeta: THEY DIDN'T CHOOSE THE TIME OF STORMING. (interview with "one of the chiefs of the operations headquarters")
16. New Statesman (UK): Entombed in poverty. Russia - John Gray on the market madness of the post-Soviet period.

 
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