[First article appeared on RIA Novosti about the blasts]

 Deadly blast hits Moscow metro

08:26 29/03/2010

An explosion hit the Moscow metro early on Monday killing 26 people, a police source told RIA Novosti. There is no information on the cause of the blast, which happened at the Lubyanka station. There has so far been no official statement.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Blast in Moscow metro kills 26

08:33 29/03/2010

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti) - An explosion hit the Moscow metro early on Monday killing 26 people, an emergencies ministry spokesperson confirmed. There is no information on the cause of the blast, which happened at the Lubyanka station. Fifteen people died in the train and 11 on the platform, the spokesperson said.

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 SECOND BLAST HITS MOSCOW METRO

08:49 29/03/2010

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 Second blast hits central Moscow metro system

08:58 29/03/2010

Two blasts hit the Moscow metro system during the rush hour on Monday morning, killing at least 20 people, the emergencies ministry said. The first blast occurred at around 8:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT) at the central Moscow Lubyanka station and killed 20 people and injured 11. A RIA Novosti employee who was on the train said it occurred in the tunnel between the Lubyanka and Okhotny Ryad stations. The second blast occurred some 45 minutes last at the nearby Park Kultury station. A RIA Novosti employee on the station platform at the time of the second blast described how the explosion left a number of people injured. He was unable to confirm that there were any fatalities. "There was smoke everywhere...people are being evacuated," he said.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 TERRORISM SUSPECTED IN MOSCOW METRO BLASTS - INVESTIGATORS

09:08 29/03/2010

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 SECOND BLAST IN MOSCOW METRO KILLS 12 - EMERGENCIES MINISTRY

09:15 29/03/2010

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 Terrorism suspected in deadly Moscow metro blasts, death toll rises

09:23 29/03/2010

Terrorism is suspected as the cause of the two blasts that tore through the central Moscow metro system during Monday morning’s rush hour killing at least 32 people, Russia’s top investigator said. The first blast occurred at around 8:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT) at the central Moscow Lubyanka station and killed 20 people and injured 11. The second blast occurred some 45 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station and killed at least 12. The injured are being evacuated by helicopter. Central Moscow is at a standstill. The last terrorist attack in the Moscow metro system occurred in February 2004 when a blast killed 41.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Suicide bombers strike central Moscow metro, at least 37 dead

10:03 29/03/2010

At least 37 people died as two suspected terrorist bombs ripped through the central Moscow metro system during Monday morning’s rush hour, the emergencies ministry said. The first blast occurred at around 8:00 a.m. (05:00 GMT), killing at least 23 people and injuring 18, many of them seriously. A RIA Novosti employee who was on the train said the blast occurred between the Lubyanka and Okhotny Ryad metro stations close to the Kremlin. The second blast occurred some 20 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station and killed at least 14 and injured at least 7. The carriage hit by the blast in still on the platform. Prosecutors said the bombs, each with the equivalent strength of 2 kg of TNT, were denoted by suicide bombers. A police source told RIA Novosti that the blasts bore all the hallmarks of "a well-planned terrorist attack." With central Moscow at a standstill, helicopters are being used to evacuate the injured. Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said that an investigation on terrorism charges had been launched. If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since 2004, when 90 people died in two plane bombings and 10 people were killed in a bomb outside a metro station.The same series of attacks culminated in the deaths of over 300 people, many of then children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan. A bomb also hit the Moscow metro in February 2004, killing 40 people. Late last year, an explosion derailed an express Moscow-St. Petersburg train, killing dozens.

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 Moscow blasts were equivalent of 2 kg TNT each- prosecutor

10:26 29/03/2010

The blasts that hit the central Moscow metro system on Monday morning were the equivalent of two kg of TNT each, Moscow prosecutor Yuri Semin said. He added that suicide bombers were suspected of having carried out the attacks.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow police on high alert emergency regime, working in subway blasts

10:26 29/03/2010

The Moscow police are operating in emergency conditions due to two blasts that struck in the Moscow subway system, law enforcement agencies said on Monday. "Due to the two blasts in the Moscow subway...the police have tightened control in the Moscow subway, train stations and other crowded areas, personal identification has also been made stricter," the head of the chief administration of internal affairs, Viktor Biryukov, said. On Monday morning, two blasts rocked Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations in the center of Moscow during the rush hour just after 8:00 a.m. At least 37 were killed and 25 injured in the blast.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Female suicide bomber suspected in Moscow blast

10:37 29/03/2010

One of the bombers who carried out a terrorist attack in the Moscow subway station Park Kultury station was a female suicide bomber, a police source said. "Parts of the body found at the scene allow us to say that it was a woman," the source said

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Both Moscow blast suspects female suicide bombers - police source

11:13 29/03/2010

Both bombers who carried out the Monday morning terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway were females, the Russian Security Service (FSB) said. "Both explosions were carried out by female suicide bombers," the Russian Security Service’s official statement said. The Investigative Committee said that at least 35 people have died and another 33 were injured in the morning blasts. A police source earlier said that an explosive device equivalent to 500 grams to 2 kg of TNT was detonated in the Moscow Park Kultury station adding that the bomb was detonated at 100-120 centimeters in height, or at approximately chest level. The source said that most of the victims of the blast were young people. Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). Emergency services are working at the scene and investigations are still underway.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow blasts kill over 30 as terrorism returns to Russian capital

11:1629/03/2010

The first terrorist attack on the Russian capital for six years killed over 30 people as two terrorist bombs ripped through the central Moscow metro system during Monday morning’s rush hour. The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (04:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station, located a short distance from the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and killed at least 23 people, with another 18 injured. The second blast detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. At least 12 people lost their lives and 15 were injured. The FSB said female suicide bombers were responsible for both attacks. The blasts, described by a police source as "a well-planned terrorist attack," took place in crowded trains as people hurried to work on the first day of the working week. Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said investigation had been launched on terrorism charges and that suicide bombers were suspected of having detonated the devices, each packing the equivalent of up to 2 kg of TNT. A police source told RIA Novosti that both of the bombers were female. Police with sniffer dogs are carrying out inspections of other stations as the capital remains on high alert. Security has been tightened at the capital’s overland train terminals and airports. With central Moscow at a standstill, the injured are being ferried to hospitals across the capital by helicopter. Police have appealed for calm Emergencies ministry chief Sergei Shoigu has reported to President Dmitry Medvedev on the ongoing operation. If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since autumn 2004, when 90 people died in two plane bombings and 10 people were killed in bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station. The same series of attacks culminated in the deaths of over 300 people, many of then children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan. A terrorist blast in the Moscow metro in February 2004 killed some 40 people. A bomb also hit a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train late last year, killing dozens.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Scores of Muscovites seek medical help with nervous breakdowns after subway blasts

11:44 29/03/2010

Dozens of Moscow residents and visitors turned to doctors with nervous breakdowns and heart attacks after two early morning blasts in the capital’s subway, a medical source said. Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). At least 35 people died and another 33 were injured in the attacks. The source said that due to the terrorist attacks many people had suffered nervous breakdowns. "Some 50 people turned to doctors for medical help," the source said adding that most of the claims were due to heart attacks and nervous breakdowns. He said that these are people who were not direct victims during the attacks, but were witnesses of the explosions.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian stock market briefly sags on Moscow blast news, recovers quickly

11:53 29/03/2010

Russia’s leading stock exchanges, MICEX and the RTS, opened on Monday with their key indexes going down on news of terrorist attacks in the Russian capital, but recovered soon afterwards. The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (04:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka metro station, located a short distance from the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and killed at least 23 people, with another 18 injured. The second blast detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury metro station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. At least 12 people lost their lives and 15 were injured. The index of the ruble-denominated MICEX opened down 0.2% while the dollar-denominated RTS declined 0.3% in the first minute of trading on Monday despite a favorable situation on global trading floors. However, 15 minutes later, both indexes rebounded, with the MICEX gaining 0.02% to 1,416.04 points and the RTS rising 0.01% to 1,519.98 points as of 10:51 a.m. Moscow time (06:51 GMT).

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 World deplores Moscow blasts, sends condolences to Russia

12:23 29/03/2010

Foreign states have described the blasts on Monday morning in Moscow’s subway, which killed over 30 people, as "cowardly attacks" and expressed their condolences to victims in messages of compassion and support for Russia. "We deplore these cowardly attacks in the most resolute manner," a statement by the German Foreign Ministry said. "Nothing can justify these vicious acts." A similar message came from the French Foreign Ministry. "France resolutely denounces these terrorist acts and assures Russia in its full support," it said. Russian investigators said two women, who acted as suicide bombers, were responsible for the blasts at Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in central Moscow. They said the explosive devices they used were equivalent to up to 2 kg of TNT. "People in our country share the pain of the heavy and unrecoverable loss," Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said in his message to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. "I am deeply shocked by the bloody terrorist act against peaceful people," a message from Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Female suicide bomber carried out terrorist attack in Moscow Park Kultury station

12:2429/03/2010

The bomber who carried out a terrorist attack in the Moscow subway’s Park Kultury station was a female suicide bomber, Russia’s top investigator said. Vladimir Markin said that the "black-haired female" terrorist was in the car where the blast occurred. The blast in the Park Kultury station was equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT packed in a plastic explosive device. Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. According to preliminary information, at least 35 people have died and dozens were injured in the early morning blast. A police source said earlier the bomb at the Moscow Park Kultury station was detonated at 100-120 centimeters in height, or at approximately chest level. At least 12 people died and another 23 were injured in the blast in the Park Kultury station. Markin said investigators have removed the CCTV recordings from the scenes of the explosions. Emergency services are working at the scene and investigations are still underway.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian president demands tightened security across country after Moscow blasts

13:09 29/03/2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded tightened security across the country after the early Monday morning blasts in the Moscow subway. "It is difficult to prevent such terrorist attacks and to provide security on transport," the president said. "It is necessary to tighten what we do, to look at the problem on a national scale, not only relating to a certain populated area but on a national scale. Obviously, what we have done before is not enough." Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. According to preliminary information, at least 36 people have died and dozens were injured in the early morning blast. This is not the first time when a terrorist attack has occurred in transport in Russia. A Moscow-St. Petersburg express train was hit last November, killing 28 people, injuring over 90.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 At least 37 died, another 65 injured in Moscow subway blasts - Emergency Services

13:18 29/03/2010

At least 37 people have been killed and another 65 injured in the Moscow subway blasts early on Monday morning, Russian Emergency Service chief Irina Andianova said. The blasts occurred in the Moscow Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations on the Sokolnicheskaya subway line.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 North Caucasus terrorists may be linked to Moscow blasts - FSB

13:30 29/03/2010

Terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus may have been responsible for Monday morning’s blasts in the Moscow metro, the head of the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said. The explosions, the first in the Moscow metro since February 2004, killed at least 36 people. Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police may be able to identify the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women’s faces had not suffered in the blasts. The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station, located a short distance from the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and killed at least 23 people, with another 18 injured. The second blast detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. At least 12 people lost their lives and 15 were injured. Markin earlier told journalists that the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her waist. A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that "An inspection of the scene indicates that the bomb was detonated at a height of 100-200 cm and was apparently attached to the waist of a female suicide bomber." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for tightened security across the country in the light of the attacks. Police with sniffer dogs are carrying out inspections of other stations as the capital remains on high alert. Security has been tightened at Moscow’s overland train terminals and airports. With central Moscow at a standstill, the injured are being ferried to hospitals across the capital by helicopter. Police have appealed for calm. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for over a decade, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. The French and the German foreign ministries have condemned the attacks. "We deplore these cowardly attacks in the most resolute manner," a statement by the German Foreign Ministry said. "Nothing can justify these vicious acts." "France resolutely denounces these terrorist acts and assures Russia in its full support," the French statement read. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Russia’s neighbor "shared" its loss. If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since the autumn of 2004, when ten people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station. The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan. A bomb also hit a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train last November, killing 27 people.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 N. Caucasus terrorist group possibly involved in Moscow blasts

13:48 29/03/2010

A North Caucasus terrorist group is possibly involved in the Moscow subway bomb blasts that killed 37 and injured at least 65 people, the Federal Security Service chief said on Monday. "According to preliminary information, these terrorist acts were committed by terrorist groups related to the North Caucasus Region. We’ll consider it as the basic version because the bodies of two female suicide bombers who were residing in the North Caucasus have been found [at the explosion sites]," Alexander Bortnikov said.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Factbox - blasts in Moscow subway system

13:53 29/03/2010

Two blasts ripped through Lubyanka and Park Kultury Moscow subway stations early on Monday morning. At least 37 were killed and 62 injured during the attacks, law enforcement agencies announced. This was the first terrorist attack on the Russian capital over the last six years. Here is a factbox over the main terrorist attacks in Moscow’s subway stations. A blast rocked the area between Rizhskaya metro station and a shopping center on August 31, 2004, at 8:15 p.m., killing 10 people and wounding more than 40. A female suicide bomber was blamed for the blast. She failed to approach a group of police near the entrance of the subway station and instead detonated the bomb nearby. The responsibility for the terrorist act near Rizhkaya station was assumed by the Islambuli brigades, an Islamist movement, considered to be part of an international terrorist organization. A message saying the attack was an act of support to Chechen Muslims, appeared on an Islamist site later. Militant Nikolai Kipkeyev, an accomplice to the suicide bomber, was killed during the blast. The investigation found he was the tutor of the female suicide bomber. Kipkeyev had a fake passport and a cell-phone which helped law enforcement agencies detain three other members of the gang, among them a former Russian Defense Ministry serviceman, who had earlier accepted Islam. All of them were sentenced to life in prison. On February 6, 2004, a bomb detonated during rush hour, 40 people were killed and 134 injured. The blast occurred in the tunnel between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations. The train engineer, Vladimir Gorelov, was awarded an Order of Courage for his professional merits during the emergency which saved the life of many people. On February 5, 2001, an explosive device hidden in a small bag blew up at Belorusskaya station at 6:45 p.m., injuring 15 people. On January 1, 1998, an explosion ripped through Tretyakovskaya station in central Moscow. The train engineer found a small bag with batteries and wires. The bomb detonated at 9:39 a.m., injuring only three people. A bomb exploded in the tunnel between the Tulskaya and Nagatinskaya stations ahead of the presidential elections on June 11, 1996, at 9:10 p.m. The shock wave from the blast blew out windows in the passenger cars and smoke entailed. Three people were killed and 16 injured. A bomb exploded in a tunnel between the Pervomayskaya and Izmailovskaya subway stations on January 8, 1977, at 5:33 p.m. Many adults and children, returning from festive parties were killed in the blast. Three Armenians of an underground political organization were blamed for the accident. They were sentenced to the death penalty.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Security stepped up across Russia after deadly Moscow blasts

14:1229/03/2010

Security has been tightened across Russia after two powerful blasts tore through the Moscow metro system on Monday morning, killing at least 37 people. "It is difficult to prevent such terrorist attacks and to provide security on transport," President Dmitry Medvedev said. "It is necessary to tighten up what we do and to look at the problem on a national scale. "Obviously, what we have done before is not enough," he said. Interior Ministry head Rashid Nurgaliyev told Medvedev that security was being boosted across the country, "in particular in those cities with metro systems." The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station, located a short distance from Red Square and the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), and killed at least 24 people. The second blast detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, also within walking distance of the Kremlin. At least 12 people lost their lives. One more person is reported as having died in the bombings. The total number of injured in both blasts is over 60. The head of the Federal Security Services (FSB) said terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks. Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police may be able to identify the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women’s faces had not suffered in the blasts. Markin earlier told journalists that the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her waist. A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that "An inspection of the scene indicates that the bomb was detonated at a height of 100-200 cm and was apparently attached to the waist of a female suicide bomber." Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for over a decade, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since the autumn of 2004, when ten people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station. The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan. A bomb also hit a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train last November, killing 27 people.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian president to tighten security, assist Moscow blasts victims’ families

14:2229/03/2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev demanded tightened security across the country after the early Monday morning blasts in the Moscow subway and pledged government assistance to the families of those who died or were injured in the explosions. "It is difficult to prevent such terrorist attacks and to provide security on transportation," the president said. "It is necessary to tighten what we do, to look at the problem on a national scale, not only relating to a certain populated area but on a national scale. Obviously, what we have done before is not enough." "It is necessary to remain on alert," Medvedev said. "It is obvious that such attacks were thoroughly planned and were expected to have a large-scale striking effect, aimed to destabilize the situation in the country and in society," he added. The president stressed that it is important to control the situation stringently but without violation of citizens’ rights. The Russian president will hold a meeting later on Monday on assisting the families of those who died or were injured in the blasts as well as a meeting on cleanup operations following the terrorist attacks. Medvedev said that the priority is to help those who were affected by the explosions and their families. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said the subway line hit by the two separate terrorist attacks will resume operation within several hours. Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during the early morning rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). According to preliminary information, at least 37 people have died and dozens were injured.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Chechnya’s Kadyrov condemns blasts in Moscow subway

14:3429/03/2010

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov condemned terrorist attacks that killed at least 37 people and injured at least another 65 in the Moscow subway early on Monday morning. Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during the early morning rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. The head of the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus may have been responsible for the blasts. Bortnikov said the bodies of "two female suicide bombers who were residing in the North Caucasus had been found at the explosion sites." "Terror attacks were staged in Moscow. People died and were injured. Again terrorism bids defiance to the state, [to the] society. The organizers and executors, whoever they are, are trying to spark chaos, drive Russia into the abyss of fear, distrust, undermine its economy. There should be no indifferent people in the fight against this evil. Evil does not choose its victims on the basis of national, religious, or racial traits," the Chechen president said. He said thousands of people died in terror attacks in Chechnya, including the first Chechen president, Akhmad Kadyrov, who was killed by a bomb explosion in a stadium in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, during a WWII victory parade on May 9, 2004. "During this difficult day for Russia’s peoples, we declare with all responsibility that [we] will fight against terrorists until they are completely destroyed. It is impossible to eradicate evil just by persuasion," he said, adding those guilty of the attacks "should be found and punished." Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for over a decade, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov sent on Monday a telegram to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, in which he expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and those affected by the attacks and said he was ready to provide all necessary help and support to the Moscow authorities to minimize the damage caused by the blasts.

GROZNY, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow terrorist attack organizers will be punished - Putin

14:4229/03/2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has no doubts that the organizers of the deadly blasts in the Moscow subway carried out on Monday morning will be punished. "It is well known that today a terrible crime against civilians in its effects and disgusting in its character was carried out," the prime minister said. "Dozens of people died in the subway." "I am sure that police will do their best to find and punish the criminals," Putin continued. "The terrorists will be destroyed." Two blasts in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury occurred during the early morning rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). According to preliminary information, at least 37 people have died and dozens were injured.

KRASNOYARSK, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Total of 6 kg in TNT used in Moscow subway blasts

14:53 29/03/2010

The two bombs in the Moscow subway blasts that killed 37 and injured at least 65 people had the equivalent of up to 4 kg and 2 kg of TNT, the Federal Security Service (FSB) director said on Monday. The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station, located a short distance from the FSB headquarters. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. Alexander Bortnikov said the bomb at the Lubyanka station exploded with a force of up to 4 kg of TNT and the second, at Park Kultury, had between 1.5 kg and 2 kg of TNT. He added that in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts meant to increase the destructive nature of the blast. A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that the bomb was detonated at a height of 100-200 cm and was apparently attached to the waist of a female suicide bomber. Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus may have been responsible for the blasts. He said the bodies of "two female suicide bombers who were residing in the North Caucasus had been found at the explosion sites." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for tightened security across the country in the light of the attacks.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Putin changes working schedule, returns to Moscow

15:26 29/03/2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has changed his working schedule and will return to Moscow after two deadly blasts in the Russian capital’s subway, Putin’s spokesman said Monday. "The scheduled conference on the development of professional education has been postponed until a later time," Dmitry Peskov said.

KRASNOYARSK, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 NATO proposes Russia discuss stepping up anti-terrorism efforts

15:28 29/03/2010

NATO proposed on Monday for Russia to hold a meeting in late April to discuss the strengthening of anti-terrorism measures following Monday’s deadly blasts in Moscow’s subway, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. At least 37 people died and 65 were injured in the two blasts that occurred in Moscow’s subway stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury during the early morning rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes. The first attack took place at approximately 8:00 a.m. "My colleagues from NATO headquarters contacted me. They expressed [their] condolences and proposed dedicating the next ambassador meeting to the issues of strengthening efforts in the fight against terrorism," Rogozin said. The head of the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus may have been responsible for Monday’s blasts. Bortnikov said the bodies of "two female suicide bombers who were residing in the North Caucasus had been found at the explosion sites." Moscow Mayor Yury Lyzhkov declared Tuesday to be a day of mourning in Moscow. Rogozin also said a meeting of NATO foreign ministers is due to take place in late April, adding the Russia-NATO Council might also hold a meeting in the same period.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Terrorists responsible for Moscow blasts will be eliminated - Putin (WRAPUP)

15:44 29/03/2010

The terrorists behind the two blasts that killed at least 37 people in the Moscow metro system on Monday morning will be eliminated, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed. The first attack on one of the world’s busiest metro systems occurred just before 8:00 a.m. (4:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka station under the headquarters of the Federal Security Services (FSB) as people hurried to work. That blast took the lives of 24 people. The second, which happened some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, killed another 12. One more person is reported as having died in the bombings. The total number of injured in both blasts is over 60. The bombings were the first major terrorist attacks in the Russian capital for six years. "As you know, today in Moscow we saw a terrible crime against peaceful civilians," Putin, currently in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, said. "I am certain our law enforcement agencies will do everything to find and punish these criminals. The terrorists will be eliminated," he added. Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police were working on identifying the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women’s faces had not suffered in the blasts. Markin earlier told journalists that the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her waist. The head of the Federal Security Services (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks. He also said the bomb at the Lubyanka station exploded with a force of up to 4 kg of TNT. He added that in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts to increase the destructive nature of the blast. A day of mourning has been announced for Tuesday in Moscow. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, militant violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. The last major terrorist incident to hit Moscow occurred in the autumn of 2004, when ten people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a metro station. The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. A bomb in the Moscow metro in February 2004 also killed 40 people. Outside of the volatile North Caucasus, these were the last major terrorist attacks in Russia until last November, when a bomb derailed a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train, killing 27 people. But Monday’s bombings have raised the very real specter of a return to terrorist violence in the Russian heartland.

KRASNOYARSK, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian religious leaders condemn Moscow subway blasts

16:2429/03/2010

The heads of Russia’s main religious faiths condemned on Monday the two Moscow subway blasts that killed least 37 people and injured dozens. The Council of Muftis said "extremism and terrorism have no basis in the Holy Quran." It said "a terrorist cannot be a Muslim while a Muslim cannot be a terrorist." Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, said he was sure the masterminds of the terrorist attack would get the punishment they deserved. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church, called for solidarity in the face of the tragedy and condemned not only the terrorists but people who have tried to cash in on human grief. "I’ve just been told that taxi drivers have raised their prices several times just because people are unable to use the metro," he said, warning that "this money will do you no good." The first attack took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station, located a short distance from the FSB headquarters. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later at the nearby Park Kultury station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts meant to increase the destructive nature of the blast. A police source earlier told RIA Novosti that the bomb was detonated at a height of 100-200 cm and was apparently attached to the waist of a female suicide bomber. Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus may have been responsible for the blasts. He said the bodies of "two female suicide bombers who were residing in the North Caucasus had been found at the explosion sites." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for tightened security across the country in the light of the attacks.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Putin asks businessmen not to cash in on subway blasts

16:3729/03/2010

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday called on businessmen not to cash in on the tragedy on the Moscow subway. "I want to call on representatives of the small and medium-sized businesses, working in the transport sector. I ask you not to abuse this situation, inflate prices or create additional difficulties, but to express solidarity with those in trouble and in need of your support," he said. Two bombs went off at the busy Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations early on Monday, killing at least 38 and wounding 65. Several subway stations had to be closed down and taxi drivers increased prices to almost 3,000 rubles ($100) per passenger for a short ride.

KRASNOYARSK, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Obama condemns Moscow subway blasts

16:4929/03/2010

U.S. President Barack Obama condemned Monday’s deadly terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway, calling them "heinous," and expressed his condolences to the Russian people. Two blasts at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations occurred within 40 minutes of each other during the early morning rush hour on Monday. The first explosion went off at around 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). A total of 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured. "The American people stand united with the people of Russia in opposition to violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks that demonstrate such disregard for human life, and we condemn these outrageous acts," Obama said in a statement. Other leaders earlier described the attacks as "cowardly" and expressed their condolences to victims in messages of compassion and support for Russia. "We deplore these cowardly attacks in the most resolute manner," a statement by the German Foreign Ministry said. "Nothing can justify these vicious acts." A similar message came from the French Foreign Ministry. "France resolutely denounces these terrorist acts and assures Russia in its full support," it said. Russian investigators said two female suicide bombers were responsible for the blasts. They said the explosive devices used were equivalent to 4 kg of TNT at the Lubyanka station and 1.5-2 kg of TNT at the Park Kultury station. "People in our country share the pain of the heavy and unrecoverable loss," Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said in his message to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. "I am deeply shocked by the bloody terrorist act against peaceful people," a message from Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius said.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian mobile network to refund cost of texts sent after Moscow blasts

17:11 29/03/2010

Russian mobile network provider Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) pledged on Monday to return money to its subscribers for text messages sent following the deadly bomb attacks in the Moscow subway, its PR director said. A storm of telephone calls and messages hit Moscow’s mobile networks as Muscovites and visitors to the Russian capital tried to reach their friends and relatives in the panic after the terrorist attacks. Operators had to switch off some services, such as 3G, to maintain call and message services without interruptions. Separate explosions in Moscow’s Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations during the early morning rush hour, the first at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT) and the second about 40 minutes later. At least 38 people died and dozens were injured. "Due to the terrorist attacks, the company’s management has decided to return MTS subscribers in Moscow and the Moscow Region their money for SMS messages sent on Monday from 8:00 a.m. until 23:59 p.m.," Elena Kohanovskaya said. MTS is Russia’s largest mobile service provider. There has been no word on whether its rivals will follow suit.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Interpol ready to help Russia investigate Moscow subway attacks

17:38 29/03/2010

International police agency Interpol has offered to help Russian authorities investigate the Moscow subway explosions, pledging its "full support and assistance." Two blasts at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations occurred within 40 minutes of each other during the early morning rush hour on Monday. The first explosion went off at around 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). At least 38 people were killed and more than 60 injured. "Interpol’s Command and Coordination Center at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France, is closely liaising with its National Central Bureau in Moscow to provide any assistance required," Interpol said on its website.

PARIS, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Communist leader proposes reinstatement of death penalty for terrorists

17:54 29/03/2010

Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov proposed on Monday the death penalty be reinstated as a part of the Russian penitentiary system. "We have said long ago the country is not ready to abolish the death penalty. The death penalty for the most heinous crimes should be renewed. It’s difficult to imagine a crime more horrible than the one that occurred today," Zyuganov told journalists. Two bombs went off at the busy Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations early on Monday, killing at least 38 and wounding 65. Zyuganov believes punishment should be the most severe for those who organize and finance terrorist acts, as well as those who "program" others to carry out terrorism. Measures to improve the social and economic situation in the North Caucasus republics are also necessary, he added. The communist leader also expressed his condolences to the families whose relatives were injured or killed in the subway terrorist attacks. In November 2009, a moratorium over the death penalty was prolonged in Russia. Russia de-facto abolished the death penalty in 1996. Russia imposed the moratorium after it joined the Council of Europe in 1996 and signed the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not ratified the document yet.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow subway trains re-start after deadly blasts

18:17 29/03/2010

Trains on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow subway, the site of two deadly suicide bombings on Monday morning, are running as normal, the subway’s press service said. Two blasts in the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations at the Sokolnicheskaya subway line occurred during the early morning rush hour with an interval of 40 minutes, the first one at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT). According to preliminary information, at least 38 people have died and more than 60 were injured. The number of passengers in the Moscow underground significantly declined following the attacks. Despite increased security across the network, the evening rush hour saw the usually overcrowded metro carriages half empty as many people stayed away. Psychologists have urged people not to be afraid of using the metro as, they say, the probability of an individual becoming the victim of a terrorist attack is very low.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100329/158350717.html

[RIA Novosti’s general factbox about the blasts and related events]

 Moscow subway bombings kill 38, are condemned worldwide

20:50 29/03/2010

Two terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway on Monday killed 38 people and left over 60 injured, forcing enhanced security measures across Russia and drawing international condemnation. The first attack on one of the world’s busiest metro systems occurred just before 8:00 a.m. (04:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka station under the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) as people hurried to work. That blast took the lives of 24 people. The second, some 40 minutes later four stops down the line at Park Kultury station, killed another 12. Two have since died of injuries sustained in the bombings, which injured more than 60 people. The bombings were the first major terrorist attacks in the Russian capital for six years. Full service has by now been restored on the Sokolnicheskaya metro line, including for the stations where the bombings occurred. Two women and a man are wanted in connection with the terrorist attack, a law enforcement source said. Eyewitnesses described the chaos and panic that followed the blasts. "I was in shock. I was deafened by the sound of the blast, but at first I didn’t think it was a terrorist attack. Then I saw all the smoke and realized it had been an explosion. My only thought was to get away as quickly as possible," said Alexandra Antonova, who was at the Lubyanka station when the first explosion occurred. Another witness said that some of the wounded were pushed along in the crowd of around 1,000 people trying to leave the station via one escalator. "At the exit near the escalator two wounded women, who had been carried along in the crowd, overtook me. They had cuts on their faces and burnt hair. There was also a man with a wound on his neck."

Putin returns to Moscow

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed that the terrorists behind the attack would be eliminated. "As you know, today in Moscow we saw a terrible crime against peaceful civilians," Putin said in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk before canceling his engagements and returning to Moscow. "I am certain our law enforcement agencies will do everything to find and punish these criminals. The terrorists will be eliminated," he added. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov proposed on Monday the death penalty be reinstated as a part of the Russian penitentiary system. "We have said long ago the country is not ready to abolish the death penalty. The death penalty should be renewed for the most heinous crimes. It’s difficult to imagine a crime more horrible than the one that occurred today," Zyuganov told journalists. In November 2009, a moratorium over the death penalty was prolonged in Russia. Russia de-facto abolished the death penalty in 1996. However, the protocol has not yet been ratified, leaving the death penalty de-jure in the country.

International condemnation

U.S. President Barack Obama condemned Monday’s deadly terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway, calling them "heinous," and expressed his condolences to the Russian people. "The American people stand united with the people of Russia in opposition to violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks that demonstrate such disregard for human life, and we condemn these outrageous acts," Obama said in a statement. Other world leaders also expressed their condolences to victims in messages of compassion and support for Russia. "We deplore these cowardly attacks in the most resolute manner," a statement by the German Foreign Ministry said. "Nothing can justify these vicious acts." "France resolutely denounces these terrorist acts and assures Russia in its full support," the French Foreign Ministry said. International police agency Interpol offered to help Russian authorities investigate the Moscow subway explosions, pledging its "full support and assistance." "Interpol’s Command and Coordination Center at its General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France, is closely liaising with its National Central Bureau in Moscow to provide any assistance required," Interpol said on its website.

North Caucasus militants blamed

Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police were working on identifying the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women’s faces had not suffered in the blasts. Markin said the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her body. The head of the Federal Security Services (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks. He also said the bomb at the Lubyanka station exploded with a force of up to 4 kg of TNT. He added that in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts to increase the destructive nature of the blast. A source in the FSB said an undetonated "shakhid belt" used by suicide bombers had been discovered at the Park Kultury station. A senior Russian parliamentarian said today’s terrorist attacks on the subway should not influence Russia’s immigration policy. Speaking at a news conference at RIA Novosti, the head of the State Duma Security Committee, Vladimir Vasilyev, warned journalists against playing up the "nationalist and religious angle" of stories and advised them to carefully verify sources. There have already been media reports of attacks on "Muslim looking" people in Moscow. Echo Mosvky radio said two Muslim women were beaten on a train between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya metro stations. A day of mourning has been announced for Tuesday in Moscow. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggested that Monday’s attacks were revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, militant violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. The last major terrorist incident to hit Moscow occurred in the fall of 2004, when ten people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a metro station. The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. A bomb in the Moscow metro in February 2004 also killed 40 people. Outside of the volatile North Caucasus, these were the last major terrorist attacks in Russia until last November, when a bomb derailed a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train, killing 27 people. But Monday’s bombings have raised the very real specter of a return to terrorist violence in the Russian heartland.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 Medvedev visits scene of deadly blast in Moscow metro

22:15 29/03/2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday laid flowers at the site of a suicide bomb attack in the Moscow metro. Twin blasts occurred on Monday morning killing at least 38 people and injuring 70. The first took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the line at Park Kultury station, which is also within walking distance of the Kremlin. Medvedev took the escalator down to the Lubyanka station platform and laid a wreath at the spot where the doors of the second carriage opened and the bomber detonated her explosives, killing at least 24 people. The president reiterated that those behind the terrorist attacks would be tracked down and eliminated. "These are simply beasts, and regardless of their motives, what they did is a crime by any legal or moral standard," Medvedev told reporters on hand for the occasion. "I have not doubts whatsoever that we will find them and eliminate all of them," he said, adding that everyone involved in the November bombing of the Nevsky Express had been killed. Twenty-seven passengers died in that attack, the first major terrorist incident beyond Russia’s North Caucasus since 2004. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cut short a trip to Siberia and visited one of the Moscow hospitals where some of the injured are undergoing treatment.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

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 UN condemns deadly blasts in Moscow subway

22:24 29/03/2010

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned on Monday the deadly terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway that claimed dozens of lives, his official spokesman said. Separate blasts in the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations at the Sokolnicheskaya subway line occurred during the morning rush hour, the first at approximately 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (04:00 GMT) and the second about 40 minutes later. At least 38 people have died and more than 70 were injured. "The secretary general strongly condemns the twin suicide bombings that took place in Moscow’s subway this morning, causing the tragic loss of many innocent lives and injuries to many other people," Ban’s spokesman said in a statement. "The secretary general is confident that the Russian authorities will bring to justice the perpetrators of this heinous terrorist attack." "The secretary general extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to the government and people of the Russian Federation. He also wishes the many injured a swift recovery," the statement said. Members of the UN Security Council also expressed their sympathy with those affected by the blasts, describing the attacks as "heinous." Other international organizations and world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama have also condemned the bombings.

UNITED NATIONS, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/world/20100329/158353959.html

[RIA Novosti’s general factbox about the blasts and related events]

 Medvedev lays flowers at scene of Moscow subway blast (WRAPUP 3)

23:51 29/03/2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday visited the scene of a deadly suicide bombing in the Moscow subway and laid flowers at the site. Twin blasts occurred on Monday morning in the Moscow metro, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 70. Following the attacks, which drew international condemnation, Medvedev ordered enhanced security measures across Russia. The first blast took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb was detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the line at Park Kultury station, which is also within walking distance of the Kremlin. Medvedev laid a wreath at the spot on the Lubyanka station platform where the doors of the second carriage opened and the first bomber detonated her explosives, killing at least 24 people. The president said those behind the terrorist attacks would be tracked down and eliminated. "These are simply beasts, and regardless of their motives, what they did is a crime by any legal or moral standard," Medvedev told reporters on hand for the occasion. "I have no doubts whatsoever that we will find them and eliminate all of them," he said, adding that everyone involved in the November bombing of the Nevsky Express had been killed. Twenty-seven passengers died in that attack, the first major terrorist incident beyond Russia’s North Caucasus since 2004. He also said he would soon sign a decree to establish a modern transport control and warning system in Russia. Full service has by now been restored on the Sokolnicheskaya metro line, including for the stations where the bombings occurred. Two women and a man are wanted in connection with the terrorist attack, a law enforcement source said. Eyewitnesses described the chaos and panic that followed the blasts. "I was in shock. I was deafened by the sound of the blast, but at first I didn’t think it was a terrorist attack. Then I saw all the smoke and realized it had been an explosion. My only thought was to get away as quickly as possible," said Alexandra Antonova, who was at the Lubyanka station when the first explosion occurred. Another witness said that some of the wounded were pushed along in the crowd of around 1,000 people trying to leave the station via one escalator. "At the exit near the escalator two wounded women, who had been carried along in the crowd, overtook me. They had cuts on their faces and burnt hair. There was also a man with a wound on his neck."

Putin returns to Moscow

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed that the terrorists behind the attack would be eliminated. "As you know, today in Moscow we saw a terrible crime against peaceful civilians," Putin said in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk before canceling his engagements and returning to Moscow, where he visited one of the Moscow hospitals where some of the injured are undergoing treatment. "I am certain our law enforcement agencies will do everything to find and punish these criminals. The terrorists will be eliminated," he added. Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov proposed on Monday the death penalty be reinstated as a part of the Russian penitentiary system. "We have said long ago the country is not ready to abolish the death penalty. The death penalty should be renewed for the most heinous crimes. It’s difficult to imagine a crime more horrible than the one that occurred today," Zyuganov told journalists. In November 2009, a moratorium over the death penalty was prolonged in Russia. Russia de-facto abolished the death penalty in 1996. However, the protocol has not yet been ratified, leaving the death penalty de-jure in the country.

International condemnation

World leaders, heads of international organizations and Russian religious figures have condemned the attacks. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s spokesman said in a statement: "The secretary general strongly condemns the twin suicide bombings that took place in Moscow’s subway this morning, causing the tragic loss of many innocent lives and injuries to many other people." "The secretary general extends his deepest condolences to the families of the victims, and to the government and people of the Russian Federation. He also wishes the many injured a swift recovery," the statement said. U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned Medvedev to express his condolences to the Russian people. "The American people stand united with the people of Russia in opposition to violent extremism and heinous terrorist attacks that demonstrate such disregard for human life, and we condemn these outrageous acts," Obama said in a statement. Other world leaders, too, have sent Russia messages of compassion and support. International police agency Interpol offered to help Russian authorities investigate the Moscow subway explosions, pledging its "full support and assistance." The heads of Russia’s main religious faiths joined the chorus of voices speaking out against the bombings. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who heads the Russian Orthodox Church, called for solidarity in the face of the tragedy, criticizing not only the terrorists but also people who try to cash in on human misery. "I’ve just been told that taxi drivers have raised their prices several times just because people are unable to use the subway," he said, warning that "this money will do you no good."

North Caucasus militants blamed

Russia’s top investigator Vladimir Markin said police were working on identifying the two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks. He added that the women’s faces had not suffered in the blasts. Markin said the second attack had been carried out by a "dark-haired woman" and that "fragments of her body" found at the scene suggested she had had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to her body. The head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus may have been involved in the attacks. He also said the bomb at the Lubyanka station exploded with a force of up to 4 kg of TNT. He added that in both cases the bombs were packed with metal nuts and bolts to increase the destructive nature of the blast. A senior Russian parliamentarian said today’s terrorist attacks on the subway should not influence Russia’s immigration policy. Speaking at a news conference at RIA Novosti, the head of the State Duma Security Committee, Vladimir Vasilyev, warned journalists against playing up the "nationalist and religious angle" of stories and advised them to carefully verify sources. There have already been media reports of attacks on "Muslim looking" people in Moscow. Echo Mosvky radio said two Muslim women were beaten on a train between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya metro stations. A day of mourning has been announced for Tuesday in Moscow. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggested that Monday’s attacks were revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. Aside from Chechnya, militant violence is also a regular occurrence in the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan. The last major terrorist incident to hit Moscow occurred in the fall of 2004, when 10 people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a metro station. The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan. A bomb in the Moscow metro in February 2004 also killed 40 people. Outside of the volatile North Caucasus, these were the last major terrorist attacks in Russia until last November, when a bomb derailed a Moscow-St. Petersburg express train, killing 27 people. But Monday’s bombings have raised the very real specter of a return to terrorist violence in the Russian heartland.

MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100329/158354916.html

 Lavrov sees foreign backing in Moscow metro blasts

00:46 30/03/2010

The deadly blasts in the Moscow subway could have been organized with support from abroad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "I do not rule this out, nothing can be ruled out here," he said. The top Russian diplomat said that Moscow "is well informed about the so-called no-man’s land on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan," where "the terrorist underground has entrenched itself." "We know that many terrorist attacks — not only in Afghanistan, but in other countries too — are plotted in that area... Sometimes, the trail leads to the Caucasus," he said. He urged the global community to coordinate efforts in the fight against international terrorism and its financial sponsors.

GATINEAU (Canada), March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 G8 countries express "sincere condolences" to Russia — Lavrov

01:31 30/03/2010

Russia’s G8 partners expressed sincere condolences over Monday’s twin blasts in the Moscow subway, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. The foreign ministers of G8 countries, who met in Canada’s Gatineau, adopted a joint statement condemning the two suicide bomb attacks that killed at least 38 people and injured more than 70. "There are no reasons to suspect [them] of being insincere. We are not the only [country] to have faced such calamity... Other G8 countries also had terrorist attacks on their territory," he said. The first blast took place at 7:52 a.m. (03:52 GMT) at the Lubyanka station of the Moscow metro near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb was detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the line at Park Kultury station, which is also within walking distance of the Kremlin. World leaders, heads of international organizations and Russian religious figures have condemned the attacks.

GATINEAU (Canada), March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Death toll in Moscow subway blasts climbs to 39

09:52 30/03/2010

The number of victims killed in the Moscow subway terrorist acts has risen to 39, head of the Moscow Health Department Andrei Seltsovsky said on Tuesday. "One critically wounded woman died in Sklifosovsky Hospital overnight," he told Rossiya 24 TV channel. Tuesday has been declared a Day of Mourning in the Russian capital over the victims of the two deadly subway blasts.

MOSCOW, March 30 ( RIA Novosti)

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 Russian investigators call on witnesses to help find Moscow blasts organizers

10:53 30/03/2010

The Russian Prosecutor’s Office asked on Tuesday witnesses of the blasts that hit the Moscow subway, leaving dozens dead and injured, to provide investigators with information that could help find the organizers of the bombings. "All evidence and any information about the terrorist attacks provided by witnesses are important for the investigation," the investigative committee of the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who visited the scene of the blasts late on Monday, pledged to punish those responsible for the attacks. "I have not doubts whatsoever that we will find them and eliminate all of them. As we eliminated those who organized the bombing of the Nevsky Express," he said, pointing to the November bombing of a luxury high-speed train bound from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The attack, which left 27 passengers dead, was the first major terrorist incident beyond Russia’s North Caucasus since 2004. In early March, the Federal Security Service said a notorious gang leader in Russia’s North Caucasus, Alexander Tikhomirov or Said Buryatsky, who had been linked to the derailment of the Nevsky Express, was killed in a police sweep in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Five other militants involved in the attack were also reportedly killed. On Tuesday, Russian media quoted sources close to the investigation as saying female suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway could have been prepared for the attacks by Buryatsky’s gang. Leading Russian business daily Kommersant said the killed gang leader was personally involved in preparing some 30 suicide bombers, nine of which had already carried out suicide attacks. Investigators were quoted by the paper as saying they had found most of the fragments of the women’s bodies at the scene, except their middle parts and one hand of each of the women. This means that both attackers were most probably carrying bombs in their handbags. Both bombers were reportedly similar in physical features to residents from the Caucasus region, 20 to 25 years of age, and were wearing dark clothes. Media reports said cameras set at the entrance of the Yugo-Zapadnaya station of the Sokolnicheskaya line, where the terrorists reportedly entered the subway, showed they were accompanied by two ethnic Russian-looking women, near 25 and 40 years of age, and a man, and are believed to be tied to organizing the terrorist acts. Investigators have begun a search for them.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100330/158360608.html

 Muscovites unite in protest against money-grabbing cabbies during terror act

11:44 30/03/2010

Ordinary motorists offered free rides to those left stranded after two terrorist attacks on the Moscow subway practically paralyzed commuters trying to get to work in Russia’s capital, Gazeta.ru news site reported on Tuesday. Muscovites were shocked at the news that unofficial taxi drivers were charging over 3,000 rubles ($100) per passenger for a fare that would normally cost 150 rubles to those left stranded after the explosions in one of the world’s busiest subways on Monday. Although the subway network did not close down after the attacks, trains on the Sokolnicheskaya line, where the attacks took place, stopped running and many people were reluctant to use the subway. Blogs and comments protesting against the inhumanity of Moscow motorists immediately began to appear on the web and calls on the social networking site Twitter urged the people of Moscow to offer free rides to those in need. Some drivers even went out of their way to drive to the subway stations where the attacks took place to offer people rides. "I saw the reports about crafty taxi drivers cashing in on stranded passengers and I decided to take matters into my own hands," said one blogger. "I drove to the subway station I’d heard mentioned on the news. I managed to do several runs in the course of the morning. I turned off the radio in my car. Everyone was silent. The women had tears in their eyes. I didn’t charge them of course. After I’d done my bit, I went to work." The two deadly blasts went off on Monday within 40 minutes of each other at the packed Lubyanka and Park Kultury Moscow subway stations, killing at least 39 and wounding over 70. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called on businessmen, particularly those in the transport sector, not to cash in on the tragedy. He asked people to "express solidarity with those in trouble and in need of support." Tuesday has been declared a Day of Mourning in the Russian capital over the victims of the two deadly subway blasts.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Hundreds call for psychological help after Moscow subway blasts

11:58 30/03/2010

Hundreds of alarmed people called a Moscow psychiatric institute following two terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway, a spokesman for the institute said on Tuesday. Twin blasts occurred during the rush hour in one of the world’s busiest transport systems on Monday morning, killing at least 39 people and injuring around 70. The first attack took place at around 8:00am (04:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka station near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the line at Park Kultury station, which is within walking distance of the Kremlin. After the blasts, the Moscow Serbsky Institute for Social and Forensic Psychiatry opened a hotline for relatives of the victims and those affected. Some 200 calls were received during the first few hours after the line opened, and around 600 people have called the institute for psychological assistance over the past 24 hours. "Before, people mostly called for information about their relatives, now they turn to us with fears and concerns," Anna Portnova from the Serbsky Institute said. She said many of those who called the hotline said they were afraid of using the subway. Others asked where they could donate blood for the people injured in the blasts. The number of passengers in the Moscow underground significantly decreased on Monday following the attacks. Despite increased security across the network, the evening rush hour saw the usually overcrowded metro carriages half empty as many people stayed away. Psychologists have urged people not to be afraid of using the metro as the probability of an individual being the victim of a terrorist attack is very low.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian stock market resistant to Moscow suicide bomb blasts

12:29 30/03/2010

The Russian stock market quickly recovered from a brief nosedive after two terrorist attacks of the Moscow subway and demonstrated confident growth, the business media reported on Tuesday. The blasts occurred during the early morning rush hour on Monday on the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow subway, killing at least 39 people and injuring some 70. The first attack took place at around 8:00am (04:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka station near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the same subway line at Park Kultury station, which is within walking distance of the Kremlin. The index of the ruble-denominated MICEX opened down 0.2% while the dollar-denominated RTS declined 0.3% in the first minute of trading on Monday, despite favorable conditions on global trading floors. However, 15 minutes later, both indexes rebounded, with the MICEX gaining 0.02% to 1,416.04 points and the RTS rising 0.01% to 1,519.98 points as of 10:51 a.m. Moscow time (06:51 GMT). The MICEX index closed 1.74% up from Friday’s close on Monday at 1,440.20 points while the RTS grew as much as 2.09% to 1,551.57 points. "If, in the future, terrorist attacks are not aimed at destroying the infrastructure of markets, oil pipelines, electric power stations and dams, their effect on stock prices will be limited," newspaper Vedomosti quoted Andrei Vernikov, deputy general director of Zerich Capital Management, as saying. The Russian foreign exchange market was also stable on Monday. After jumping 0.6% or 17 kopeks against the ruble at the opening of the trading session on Monday to 29.8 rubles following the news of the terrorist attacks, the greenback swiftly returned to its Friday’s closing level, Kommersant reported. "Exporters resumed foreign exchange sales and everything went on as usual," the paper quoted Denis Korshilov, head of the Citibank department for conversion transactions, as saying. The dollar closed down 7 kopeks to 29.56 rubles on Monday, the paper said.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian upper house mulls death penalty for terrorists

13:49 30/03/2010

The upper house of the Russian parliament may propose amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for organizers of terrorist attacks resulting in multiple deaths, the chairman of the Federation Council’s Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues said. "This is our reaction to yesterday’s tragic events in Moscow," Anatoly Lyskov said. On Monday, two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow subway, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 70. The blasts ripped through the packed Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations of the Sokolnicheskaya line with an interval of about 40 minutes in the morning rush hour. Lyskov said his committee was working on a draft law which would introduce death penalty for terrorists. The current law provides for life imprisonment for terrorist acts leading to the death of a single individual. The new amendments would provide for capital punishment for staging a terrorist attack that results in multiple losses of life. It is unclear how an amendment stipulating the death penalty for such crimes would correlate with a moratorium on the death penalty prolonged in November 2009 by the Russian Constitutional Court. The death penalty was de-facto abolished in Russia in 1996. The country imposed the moratorium after it joined the Council of Europe that year and signed the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not ratified the document yet. The Russian parliamentarian said, however, "if such terrible crimes take place, we should propose the society a new variant of criminal punishment, so that people involved in a terrorist attack know what to expect." He added the amendments to be worked out by the Federation Council’s committee also stipulated that people involved in terrorist attacks resulting in multiple loss of life could not be pardoned. Lyskov said the committee would work out the amendments at the earliest possible date and send them to the government and the Supreme Court for approval. On Monday, the Russian Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, proposed the death penalty be reinstated for "the most heinous crimes." "It’s difficult to imagine a crime more horrible than the one that occurred today," he said, pointing to Monday’s blasts.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Ingush president orders checks on militants’ relatives after Moscow subway blasts

14:09 30/03/2010

Ingush president Yunus-Bek Yevkurov ordered law enforcement forces on Tuesday to probe the relatives of the militants killed in recent police sweeps in Ingushetia, after the suicide bombings on the Moscow subway, the president’s spokesman said. Twin blasts occurred during the rush hour at two Moscow subway stations on Monday morning, killing at least 39 people and injuring around 70. The first attack took place at around 8:00am (04:00 GMT) at the Lubyanka station near the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb detonated some 40 minutes later four stops along the line at Park Kultury station, which is within walking distance of the Kremlin. "With regard to the blasts on the Moscow subway the president [Yevkurov] has ordered the heads of the Ingush law enforcement forces to check all people listed on their records to find out where they were when the attacks took place," Kaloi Alkhigov said. While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said bombers may have been linked to Russia’s volatile North Caucasus. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, fighting two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. In early March, the Federal Security Service said the notorious North Caucasian gang leader Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, who was linked to the bombing of the Nevsky Express in September 2009, was killed in a police sweep in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Five other militants involved in the attack were also reportedly killed. On Tuesday, Russian media quoted sources close to the investigation as saying the two female suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway could have been trained for the attacks by Tikhomirov’s gang. The leading Russian business daily Kommersant said the gang leader was personally involved in training around 30 suicide bombers, nine of whom had already carried out suicide attacks. Investigators were quoted by the paper as saying they had found most of the fragments of the women’s bodies at the scene, except their middle parts and one hand of each of the women. This means that both attackers were probably carrying bombs in their handbags. Both bombers reportedly had similar features to residents of the Caucasus region, were 20 to 25 years of age, and were wearing dark clothes. Media reports said cameras in the entrance of the Yugo-Zapadnaya station of the Sokolnicheskaya line, where the terrorists reportedly entered the subway, showed they were accompanied by two Russian-looking women of around 25 and 40 years of age and a man. Investigators believe they are linked to the terrorist attacks and have begun a search for them.

MAGAS, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow holds day of mourning for metro blasts

17:30 30/03/2010

Moscow is holding a day of mourning after two suicide bombings killed dozens of people in the capital’s subway on Monday. The first blast came at around 8:00 a.m. (04:00 GMT) at the central Lubyanka station beneath the former KGB headquarters, which now houses the Federal Security Service. The second bomb went off at 8.38 a.m. (04:38 GMT) four stops along the red line at the Park Kultury station, within walking distance of the Kremlin. Early on, Muscovites began lighting candles and laying flowers in memory of the victims of the blasts inside the two stations, where stalls and tables for flowers have been set up. Just hours after the blasts, officials and web-bloggers started a massive campaign calling on Muscovites to donate blood for those injured in the blasts, with members of police reported to have been the first to do so. The main TV channels have dropped advertising and entertainment programs from their schedules. Late on Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Lubyanka station and laid flowers. He called the terrorists "beasts," saying that "regardless of their motives, what they did is a crime by any legal or moral standard." "I have no doubts whatsoever that we will find them and eliminate all of them," he added. While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, the head of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, said the bombers may have had links to Russia’s volatile North Caucasus. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday’s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. There has been a lot of speculation that the two female suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway could have been trained for the attacks by the notorious North Caucasian gang leader Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, who was killed in a police sweep in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia in early March. The leading Russian business daily Kommersant said the gang leader was personally involved in training around 30 suicide bombers, nine of whom had already carried out suicide attacks.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russia moves to toughen terrorism-related laws

17:48 30/03/2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told top judicial officials on Monday that the country’s laws concerning terrorism-related crimes should be reviewed. His comments came as the upper house of the Russian parliament mulled proposing amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for organizers of terrorist attacks resulting in multiple deaths. "Certainly, we have a reason to turn once again to issues related to judicial practices concerning terrorism," Medvedev said, addressing Russia’s Supreme Court chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev, Supreme Arbitration Court chairman Anton Ivanov, Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, and a range of top-ranking government officials. The Russian president did not specify what particular changes should be introduced to the law. The meeting took place after two deadly suicide attacks hit the Moscow subway on Monday morning, killing at least 39 people. The chairman of the Federation Council’s Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues said earlier on Monday the committee was preparing amendments to the country’s criminal law stipulating the death penalty for organizers of terrorist attacks resulting in multiple deaths. The current law provides for life imprisonment for terrorist acts leading to the death of a single individual. He said the committee would introduce the draft law to the government and the Supreme Court for approval at the earliest possible date. It is unclear how an amendment stipulating the death penalty for such crimes would correlate with a moratorium on the death penalty prolonged in November 2009 by the Russian Constitutional Court. The death penalty was de-facto abolished in Russia in 1996. The country imposed the moratorium after it joined the Council of Europe that year and signed the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not ratified the document yet. The Russian parliamentarian said, however, "if such terrible crimes take place, we should propose the society a new variant of criminal punishment, so that people involved in a terrorist attack know what to expect." He added the amendments to be worked out by the Federation Council’s committee also stipulated that people involved in terrorist attacks resulting in multiple loss of life could not be pardoned.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Terrorists will be ’dragged out from the sewers’ - Putin

18:24 30/03/2010

Finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said during questions at a conference on transport security on Tuesday. Two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 70. The blasts ripped through the rush-hour Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations with an interval of about 40 minutes. "We know that they are lying low. But it is a matter of honor for the security services to drag them out from the bottom of the sewers into the light of God" Putin said. "I am convinced that this will happen." This is not the first time that Putin has used sewage analogies in response to terrorists. In 1999, during his first term as prime minister under then president Boris Yeltsin, he famously threatened to "wipe them out in their outhouse." The phrase did much to establish Putin’s "tough guy" image, on which much of his popularity is based. On Tuesday, Putin also praised the work of the rescue services at the site of the explosions. "I want to thank the fire, rescue and medical services, and anyone who helped people, for your professional, well-managed work" he said. "It was without a doubt carried out at a highly professional level." He also promised to take steps to improve Russian security. "We must and will think about the development of CCTV systems. We will improve the technical means of detecting explosives, rescue systems and ways of warning and informing citizens," he said. "I think it’s clear to all that this is not a matter of the money and recourses we are prepared to put aside for solving this problem. It’s a matter how effectively we can find a solution."

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Chechen rights official warns of discrimination after bombings

Russia may see a rise in ethnic hatred following the deadly blasts in Moscow’s subway, the ombudsman for Human Rights in Chechnya warned on Tuesday. "The fears of people with Chechen backgrounds are not groundless. They have bitter experience of being considered criminals and abused because of their ethnic group," Nurdi Nuhazhiyev said. "We have received calls from people of different Russian regions and Moscow who are frightened from possible illegal actions against them," he said. "Some Chechen people... have already felt a shift in the attitude towards them." Russian media reported on Monday that there had been assaults on "Muslim-looking" people, but Ramazan Abdulatipov, the head of the assembly of the Russian peoples, said on Tuesday that Caucasus diasporas in Moscow had not complained of acts of xenophobia. Ekho Moskvy radio said two Muslim women were beaten on a subway train between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations in south Moscow. The Russian tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that two men of "Caucasian appearance" were assaulted " at Kuntsevskaya station in the west of the capital when they refused to show their bags to "a group of vigilantes." At least 39 people died in Monday’s twin suicide bombings, which the Federal Security Service said were most likely carried out by terrorists from Russia’s volatile North Caucasus. Nuhazhiyev said he has already asked Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov to call on police to refrain from treating everyone from the North Caucasus as potential terrorists. He emphasized that Russian politicians have spoken about how the possible link between the terrorist attacks and people of certain nationalities could provoke a rise of Russian nationalism.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian Islamic group offers reward for info on attack organizers

22:04 30/03/2010

Russia’s Islamic Cultural Center will pay 1 million rubles ($30,000) for any information on the organizers of the Moscow subway bomb attack, the organization’s president said on Tuesday. Two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 70. The blasts ripped through the rush-hour Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations with an interval of about 40 minutes. Abdul Vakhed Niyazov said the offer had the backing of the Russian Council of Muftis. "We all agreed that we should contribute to catching the criminals and their associates by any means available to us," he said, adding that any pertinent information would be handed over to law enforcement agencies. "This initiative is designed to identify the organizers and masterminds of the act hateful to God and aimed against civilians," Niyazov said. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said earlier in the day finding the organizers of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro is a matter of honor for the security agencies.

MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)

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 Moscow mayor thanks people for restraint during subway blasts

01:50 31/03/2010

Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov has thanked the residents of the Russian capital for restraint during Monday’s deadly subway blasts. "I want to not only apologize but also thank Muscovites for holding back their panic. It was hard and dangerous [in the subway]... [but] most people displayed restraint and understanding, and did not panic," Luzhkov said live on the TVC channel on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian upper house speaker against death penalty for terrorists

13:49 31/03/2010

The speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament slammed on Wednesday proposals to reinstate the death penalty for terrorists. Sergei Mironov’s comments came just two days after two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens more. "I am negative about calling off a moratorium on the death penalty," Mironov said. He said that terrorists should receive life behind bars and "rot in prison and die bad deaths." Mironov also refuted speculation that the upper house had set up a working group to develop amendments to the criminal law stipulating the death penalty for terrorists. The chairman of the Federation Council’s Committee on Legal and Juridical Issues, Anatoly Lyskov, said on Tuesday his committee was working on a draft law which would introduce death penalty for terrorists. The current law provides for life imprisonment for terrorist acts leading to the death of a single individual. The new amendments would have provided for capital punishment for staging a terrorist attack that results in multiple losses of life. It is unclear how an amendment stipulating the death penalty for such crimes would correlate with a moratorium on the death penalty prolonged in November 2009 by the Russian Constitutional Court. The death penalty was de-facto abolished in Russia in 1996. The country imposed the moratorium after it joined the Council of Europe that year and signed the European Convention on Human Rights, but it has not ratified the document yet.

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Georgia says ready to cooperate in Moscow bombing investigation

14:24 31/03/2010

Georgia is ready to cooperate with Russia in investigating the recent Moscow metro suicide bombings, State Minister of Georgia for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili said on Wednesday. Two suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80. The blasts ripped through the rush-hour Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations with an interval of about 40 minutes. "On our part, all support in any investigation will be provided. If something points to Georgia, let them come and tell us. We are ready to cooperate," Yakobashvili said in a live interview with Rustavi-2 TV channel. Yakobashvili’s announcement came after the chief of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev refused to rule out Georgian involvement in the attacks. Long-standing tensions between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia turned violent when the two fought a five-day war in early August 2008 over breakaway Georgian regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia recognized the two republics’ independence shortly after the end of the war.

TBILISI, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Powerful blast in Russia’s North Caucasus

09:17 31/03/2010

A powerful blast went off in the town of Kizlyar in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. The source said the blast occurred in a parking lot near a school. Several people have been injured.

MAKHACHKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Nine dead in twin blasts in Russia’s North Caucasus

10:16 31/03/2010

Nine people including the local police chief were killed in two explosions in the town of Kizlyar in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Wednesday, a law enforcement source said. "According to preliminary information, nine people were killed. Among them was the chief of local police, Vitaly Vedernikov," the source told RIA Novosti.

MAKHACHKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Suicide bomber caused 2nd blast in Russia’s Dagestan

10:24 31/03/2010

A suicide bomber dressed as policeman is responsible for one of the blasts in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, local police and investigators said on Wednesday. At least nine people including the local police chief were killed and six others were injured in two explosions in the town of Kizlyar on Wednesday morning. An investigator told RIA Novosti that the suicide bomber struck as a team of investigators was working at the scene of the first explosion.

MAKHACHKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Russian interior minister increases security after Dagestan blasts

10:30 31/03/2010

Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev ordered increased security at important buildings and public places in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan after two explosions on Wednesday. Nurgaliyev added that Russia’s response to the terrorist acts in Moscow on Monday morning, when two suicide bombers killed 39 people on the city’s subway, would be "tough and principled."

MAKHACHKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Bombings kill 9 in south Russia 2 days after Moscow attacks (WRAPUP)

10:50 31/03/2010

Twin blasts rocked Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan just two days after 39 people were killed in two subway explosions in Moscow, the region’s Interior Ministry said. Nine people were killed and six injured in the explosions in the town of Kizlyar near Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. He said at least one blast was triggered by a suicide bomber dressed as a policeman. The first blast occurred at 08:45 Moscow time [04:45 GMT], and the other came 20 minutes later. A local police source said the disguised suicide bomber approached police who were working at the site of the first explosion and blew himself up. The explosions occurred some 300 meters from the buildings of the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and a school. "According to preliminary information, a Niva car stuffed with explosives blew up. When police and emergencies services came to the site, a second blast went off," the source said. The blasts occurred just two days after two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday morning, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80. The Moscow attacks ripped through the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations at rush hour with an interval of about 40 minutes. The Moscow attacks are believed to have been committed by terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus region. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal wars against separatists in Chechnya. Analysts suggested that Monday’s attacks were revenge for a recent police operation that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. No connection has been made yet between the incidents in Moscow and Dagestan.

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 Death toll in Dagestan blasts rises to 11

11:18 31/03/2010

The death toll of two explosions in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan has risen to 11, a Russian law enforcement said. The first occurred at 08:45 Moscow time [04:45 GMT] on Wednesday, while the other came 20 minutes later. "According to preliminary information, the number of killed has increased to 11 people, including seven policemen," the source told RIA Novosti. However, Dagestan’s interior ministry has not yet confirmed the information, saying the number of victims and injured is being verified.

MAKHACHKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 One group may be behind Moscow, Dagestan attacks - Putin

14:18 31/03/2010

A single terrorist group may be behind the explosions in Moscow and Dagestan, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. "I do not rule out that this is one and the same group," Putin said at a government session. He ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to strengthen police units in the North Caucasus. As many as 12 people died on Wednesday in twin blasts in the town of Kizlyar in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 We will not allow terrorists to destabilize Russia - Medvedev

16:02 31/03/2010

Terrorists will not be allowed to destabilize the situation in Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday following two double bombings in Dagestan and Moscow. "The terrorists’ goal is to destabilize the situation in the country, destroy civil society and spark fear and panic among the population," Medvedev said. "We will not allow this." "As for the criminals, all of them will be found and eliminated," he said. On Wednesday, twin blasts killed as many as 12 people and injured 29 in the town of Kizlyar in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, while at least 39 people were killed on Monday in two attacks on the Moscow metro.

GORKI, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 First bomb in Dagestan blasts had power of 200 kg TNT - investigators

14:56 31/03/2010

The first bomb to explode on Wednesday in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan could have had a force of up to 200 kg of TNT, a Russian investigator said. "According to preliminary data, the power of the bomb was equivalent to about 200 kg of TNT. The blast left a crater 5 meters in diameter and 1.5 meters in depth," the source said. The death toll from the explosions in the town of Kizlyar on Wednesday morning currently stands at 12, while 29 people have been hospitalized. MAKHACKALA, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

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 12 killed in south Russia twin bombings days after Moscow attacks (WRAPUP 2)

15:5931/03/2010

Twin blasts rocked Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people, just two days after two metro suicide bombings in Moscow. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a government session on Wednesday he did not rule out that a single terrorist group may be behind the bombings. President Dmitry Medvedev also said there may be a link. Wednesday’s attacks took place in the town of Kizlyar, near Dagestan’s border with Chechnya, and also left 29 people injured. The first blast went off at 08:45 Moscow time (04:45 GMT), when a car bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber some 300 meters from the buildings of the Interior Ministry, Federal Security Service and a school. It had a force of up to 200 kg of TNT. Two police officers were killed in the explosion, which also injured several bystanders. The second explosion came 20 minutes later when a suicide bomber dressed in a police officer’s uniform blew himself up as a crowd gathered. The suicide bomber, who had the equivalent of 1.5 kg of TNT strapped to his body, has been identified as Daud Jabrailov, a citizen of Kizlyar, Dagestan’s Interior Ministry said. "Around 20 minutes later a suicide bomber, dressed in a police officer’s uniform, arrived at the scene where an investigation group was working, and activated an explosive device he had on his body," the statement added. A total of nine policemen were killed in the blasts, including the city’s police chief, Vitaly Vedernikov. Tatyana Batsina, who works around 800 meters from the scene of the attacks, told RIA Novosti that she heard a loud bang and saw a cloud of smoke rise from behind a nearby school. "It looked like a nuclear explosion," she said. Around half an hour later she said she heard another blast, this time more muted. "Two cars driving past were also damaged in the explosion. A crowd gathered around the first explosion. Everyone wanted to see what had happened. Several ambulances arrived, and then another blast rang out." Batsina said a colleague who saw the explosion told her what had happened. "Bodies that were caught in the epicenter of the explosion were strewn over the street. The blast tore off the roof of the school and broke the windows. The walls of the building shook," Batsina said. The president of Dagestan, Magomedsalam Magomedov, left the capital, Makhachkala, to visit the scene of the attack. He said the terrorist attacks in Moscow and Kizlyar are "links in the same chain." Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev gave orders at a meeting of the Interior Ministry to step up security in areas of strategic importance and crowded public places in Dagestan. "I ask you to be on alert," he said. The blasts occurred just two days after two deadly suicide bombings hit the Moscow metro on Monday, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens more. The attackers struck the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations about 40 minutes apart during the morning rush hour. The Moscow attacks are believed to have been committed by terrorists from Russia’s North Caucasus region. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal wars against separatists in Chechnya. Analysts suggested that Monday’s attacks were revenge for a recent police operation that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters. While no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, there has been speculation that they may be linked to the death of the North Caucasian warlord, Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, in an anti-terrorist police sweep earlier this month. Tikhomirov was involved in the derailment of an express Moscow-St. Petersburg train in November, in which 27 people died. The leading Russian business daily Kommersant said Tikhomirov was personally involved in training around 30 suicide bombers, nine of whom had already carried out suicide attacks.

MOSCOW, March 31 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100331/158380108.html

 Bomb explosion derails freight train in Russia’s Dagestan

08:0304/04/2010

A bomb planted on the rails derailed a freight train in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan in the early hours of Sunday, a local police source said. The incident took place at around 3:40 Moscow time (23:40 GMT Saturday) near the Inchkhe station in Dagestan’s Karabudakhkentsky district, he said. Eight cars were reportedly derailed as a result, four of them overturned. No casualties were reported. The derailment was caused by a bomb explosion, the spokesman said, adding law enforcement officers were working at the scene. Twenty-seven people were killed and 90 injured when a bomb equivalent to 7 kg (15 lbs) of TNT derailed a high-speed Moscow-St. Petersburg train, Nevsky Express, on November 27, 2009. Last week, two suicide bombings in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar killed 12 people and left 29 others injured.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100404/158428028.html

 Dagestan train blast equivalent to 6 kg of TNT - security service

13:54 04/04/2010

Two bombs that went off on a railway track in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region had the force of 6 kg in TNT equivalent, the Federal Security Service said on Sunday. The blasts occurred in the early hours on Sunday near the Inchkhe station in Dagestan’s Karabudakhkent district near the capital Makhachkala, derailing the locomotive and eight carriages of a freight train. No one was hurt in the incident. "The power of the explosive that went off under the locomotive was 5 kg in TNT equivalent. Some 5-6 meters away from the explosion site, a second bomb (a trap) with the force of 1 kg in TNT equivalent went off," a spokesman for the Dagestan branch of the Federal Security Service said. Passenger train traffic along the railway line running to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan via Dagestan has resumed after several hours of suspension, railway officials said. The bomb attack occurred just days after two suicide bombings in the Dagestani town of Kizlyar killed 12 people and left 29 others injured.

MAKHACHKALA, April 4 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100404/158429913.html

 Dagestan train blast seen as continuation of terror attacks in Russia

14:26 04/04/2010

The bombs that went off on a railway track in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia’s North Caucasus can be seen as the continuation of the recent terrorist attacks in Russia, a high-placed security officer said. The blasts, with the force of 6 kg in TNT equivalent, occurred in the early hours on Sunday near the Inchkhe station in Dagestan’s Karabudakhkent district near the capital Makhachkala, derailing the locomotive and eight carriages of a freight train. No one was hurt in the incident. "The first results of the investigation into the terrorist act that occurred on the night of April 3-4 have showed that this explosion was the continuation of the terrorist attack by North Caucasus militants launched on March 29," the security officer said. Russia has been hit by a series of terrorist attacks lately. On March 29, twin suicide bomb blasts in Moscow’s Lubyanka and Park Kultury subway stations occurred during the morning rush hour, leaving at least 40 people dead and dozens injured. Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the metro attacks, saying in a video message that the attacks were retaliation for operations carried out by federal security forces in the North Caucasus. He also pledged further attacks. Two more explosions on Wednesday in the town of Kizlyar, near Dagestan’s border with Chechnya, killed 12 people and left 29 others injured.

MOSCOW, April 4 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100404/158430311.html

 Chronicle of the terrorist attacks in Ingushetia, 05 april 2010

Two police officers killed, two injured in suicide bomb attacks in Russia’s North Caucasus

10:03 05/04/2010

Two police officers were killed and another two injured in a series of two explosions, at least one of them caused by a suicide bomber, in Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia, local police said on Monday. It quoted an Ingush police spokesman as saying that the suicide bomber set off an explosive device when he was stopped by security guards at the gates of a police station in the town of Karabulak. A police source said the second blast occurred just minutes after the first, no one was killed or injured. "He [the suicide bomber] arrived in a car and it was presumed the car was mined," local police said. "All security measures were taken and as a result, the police’s fears were confirmed when the car exploded." Last week two deadly blasts occurred in two Moscow subway stations claiming some 40 lives and injuring dozens more. The attackers struck the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations about 40 minutes apart during the morning rush hour. Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the metro attacks, saying in a video message they were revenge for a special operation carried out by federal security forces on February 11, 2010, when 18 militants and four civilians were killed in Ingushetia. He threatened further attacks. Two days after the Moscow subway blasts another two explosions occurred in the town of Kizlyar, in Dagestan near the border with Chechnya, killing12 people and leaving 29 others injured. The Russian counter-terrorism committee said the organizers of the recent terrorist attacks in Moscow and Kizlyar and some of the suicide bombers have been identified. President Dmitry Medvedev said the bombings were all links in the same chain, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a single terrorist group carried out the attacks. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal wars against separatists in Chechnya.

MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/crime/20100405/158436097.html

 Car blown up in southern Russia was stolen in Ukraine

15:19 05/04/2010

The car which blew up in a terrorist attack in the Russian North Caucasus region of Ingushetia was stolen in eastern Ukraine, local police said. Two police officers were killed and another six injured in explosions carried out on Monday morning in the Ingush town of Karabulak. The first blast was carried out by a suicide bomber, who set off an explosive device when he was stopped by security guards at the gates of a police station, killing two police officers and injuring another two. "The second bomb, which was in a VAZ 2112 car parked opposite the police station in Karabulak, was activated by an unidentified person from a distance," police said, adding that the blast, equivalent to 50 kg TNT, occurred when an investigative group was inspecting the scene. "The exploded silver VAZ-2112 car was stolen in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk." Police could not explain how the stolen car, which was searched, was able to cross the Russian border and get into Ingushetia. No one was killed in the second blast, but four were injured, including the deputy prosecutor of the Karabulak police. On March 29, two deadly blasts occurred in two Moscow subway stations claiming some 40 lives and injuring dozens more. The attackers struck the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations about 40 minutes apart during the morning rush hour. Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the metro attacks, saying in a video message they were revenge for a special operation carried out by federal security forces on February 11, 2010, when 18 militants and four civilians were killed in Ingushetia. He threatened further attacks. Two days after the Moscow subway blasts another two explosions occurred in the town of Kizlyar, in Dagestan near the border with Chechnya, killing 12 people and leaving 29 injured. The Russian counter-terrorism committee said the organizers of the recent terrorist attacks in Moscow and Kizlyar and some of the suicide bombers have been identified. President Dmitry Medvedev said the bombings were all links in the same chain, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a single terrorist group carried out the attacks. Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for almost two decades, including two brutal wars against separatists in Chechnya.

MOSCOW, April 5 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100405/158439933.html

 Reactions and articles of the western press

New York Times

Moscow Attack a Test for Putin and His Record Against Terror – 29 march 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/world/europe/30moscow.html?scp=1&sq=Moscow%20terrorist&st=cse

Will the Moscow Attacks Help Putin? – 29 march 2010 [List of comments by experts, commented by the readers]

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/will-the-moscow-attacks-help-putin/?scp=2&sq=Moscow%20terrorist&st=cse

Blasts Could Derail Medvedev’s Softer Tack in the Caucasus – 30 march 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/world/europe/31moscow.html?scp=9&sq=Moscow%20terrorist&st=cse

In Russia, Putin Escapes Blame for Terror Attack – 02 april 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/weekinreview/04levy.html?scp=3&sq=Moscow%20terrorist&st=cse

Washington Post

Beyond Moscow subway bombings, Russia-U.S. intelligence bond limited – 31 march 2010

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/03/beyond_moscow_bombings_russia.html

The Indipendent

Russia fears return to wave of terrorism – 30 march 2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-fears-return-to-wave-of-terrorism-1930653.html

 Reactions and articles of the italian press

La Repubblica

Mosca, donne kamikaze nel metrò Decine di morti. "Vendetta dei caucasici" – 29 march 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/03/29/news/mosca_esplosioni-2974974/

Attentati a Mosca, i precedenti – 29 march 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/03/29/news/attentati_mosca_scheda-2977004/index.html?ref=search

A Mosca è il giorno del lutto Sono 39 le vittime delle kamikaze – 30 march 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/03/30/news/giorno_lutto-3011012/

Attacco suicida in Daghestan dodici morti, ucciso capo della polizia – 31 march 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/03/31/news/russia_attentato_daghestan-3034907/

Mosca, è caccia agli attentatori "Effettuati fermi e interrogatori" – 01 april 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/04/01/news/fallito_un_altro_attentato_nel_daghestan_bomba_esplode_nel_trasporto_2_morti-3059372/

Una ragazzina kamikaze dietro gli attentati di Mosca – 02 april 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/04/02/news/kamikaze_17_anni-3080842/

Un’insegnante di 28 anni la prima kamikaze di Mosca – 04 april 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/04/04/news/attentati_mosca-3128493/

Russia, ancora un attentato kamikaze fa due morti in Inguscezia – 05 april 2010

http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2010/04/05/news/inguscezia_attentato-3131186/