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Fri 04 Apr 2003Moscow dismisses siege victims' claim
RUSSIA: The lawyer for victims of last year's Moscow theatre siege said yesterday that the city's mayor had refused to take any responsibility for the tragedy and would not offer survivors an out-of-court settlement for damages.
Mr Igor Trunov is seeking some $60 million from Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's coffers, in a case that is unprecedented in Russian history and lays the blame for the controversial handling of the siege at the door of Moscow City Hall.
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