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ANALYSIS: PUTIN UNYIELDING
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 538.
TEXT B
Text.
I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the
COMPREHENSION CHECK
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
- a bloody climax of the siege
- Prosecutor's-General accounts of the event
- to contradict previous accounts
- to shoot dead one rebellious hostage-taker
- to use a remote-control device to detonate the explosives
- to eliminate in a gunfight with the security forces
- to quote security officials
- to give no details about the identities of the hostage-takers
- ringleaders. /key organizers
- to bribe the way through police checkpoints
- to call for the withdrawal of troops from Chechnya
- to step up guerilla attacks
- to lend grim credibility to Chechen warnings
- a confusion surrounding the Beslan outrage
- to sideline the titular chief of the rebels by radicals
- to orchestrate the seizure of hostages
- What remains unclear in the situation with hostage-takers?
- Were any details given about the identities of the hostage-takers?
- What is the official version of Russian authorities on the bloody climax of the siege at a school in North Ossetia?
- What did Mr. Ustinov say about the explosives in the school?
- What was the main aim of the leading militants according to the statement of Ustinov?
- What people were identified as the key organizers of the siege?
- What is the heart of confusion which reigns over the identity of the group who seized the school in North Ossetia?
- What versions are considered to be the key motives of the attack?
- What actions indicate that Russia's enemies in the North Caucasus are becoming increasingly radical?
II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:
- At this point, the official account says, the group's leader - known as the Colonel - shot dead one rebellious hostage who objected to Spetsnaz commando being targeted.
- It is clear that none of the hostage-takers succeeding in fleeing, along with their victims, as reported at the time.
- The leading militants kept threatening to kill everyone, saying their only aim was to carry out this act of terrorism.
- Associated Press news agency quoted security officials on Thursday who said that, of 10 who have been identified, six were Chechens and four were Russian.
- The Russian version says the hostage-takers were a multi-national group linked to the radical Chechen rebel commanders Shamil Basayev and Doku Umarov, funded by HAMAS.
- The Chechen version, as put forward by the Chechen rebel envoy in Europe, Ahmed Zakayev, is that the attackers may have been Ossetians, Russians or Ingush - but not Chechens.
- There were the attacks in Ingushetia in June - carried out by Chechens and Ingush. In the last two weeks, there has been a wave of deadly attacks in Moscow. This time the target was Chechnya, one of the most loyal of Russia's North Caucasian republics.
By Paul Reynolds
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