As it happened: Russian school siege, 4 September 2004 BBC News.

But the school siege became a turning point on many levels.

The group also staged a play based around internet reactions to the horrific 2004 school siege in Beslan.

Democracy, Mr. Putin suggested in remarks after the school siege, does not result in stability, but rather instability.

High school siege ends; one hostage shot, gunman dead (CNN)

Officials said the system could broadcast live images to the police in the event of a terrorist attack like last year's lethal school siege in Beslan, Russia.

After the school siege, there was much muttering in the streets that under Stalin such atrocities would not have occurred.

President Vladimir V. Putin proposed the changes after a wave of terrorist attacks, including the school siege in Beslan.

Last Wednesday, on the first day of the school siege, authorities said there were 120 to 150 hostages.

The careful planning evident in the school siege not only allowed the attackers to herd more than 1,000 hostages into a gymnasium.