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Hostage taking in Russia

  • Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisisAt about noon on the 14th of June, a column of three KamAZ military trucks and a police VAZ-2106 car stopped at the local police station in Budyonnovsk.
  • Moscow theater hostage crisisAt 9:02 PM on the 23rd of October 2002, forty to fifty masked men and women drove a bus into the courtyard of the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow.
  • Beslan school siegeOn the 1st of September 2004, a group of armed terrorists arrived at School Number One in Beslan. They drove into the schoolyard in a GAZelle police van and…