Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On 22 March 2024, a coordinated terrorist attack against civilians occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Crocus City, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia.The attack began at around 20:00 MSK (), shortly before the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at the venue.
Other types of terrorism in modern Russia are less significant (the activity of such radical left-wing groups as New Revolutionary Alternative and terrorist attacks by racialist Russian nationalists, such as 2006 Moscow market bombing and the assassinations committed by Battle Organization of Russian Nationalists).
Following the Chechen wars, a series of terrorist attacks and clashes between Russian and Islamist forces persisted into the 2010s. Since 2017, the North Caucasus has seen a resurgence of violence, attributed to the Islamic State. [24] In 2015 the group announced that it had established a "franchise" in the North Caucasus. [25]
Russia's chief investigator has stated the explosion was the work of terrorists. [4] Investigators found a male head and believed it might have been that of the suicide bomber. [7] [8] According to Russian newspaper accounts, the bombing was carried out by two suicide bombers, a man and a woman.
At Russia's request, a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council was convened on the evening of 1 September 2004, at which the council members demanded "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages of the terrorist attack." [46] U.S. president George W. Bush made a statement offering "support in any form" to Russia. [47]
[a] Russia called the incident a terrorist attack, and said its 9 March missile strikes on Ukraine were retaliation. Ukraine's government denied involvement; it said the incident could have been a false-flag attack by Russia to justify its ongoing war against Ukraine, or else an attack by anti-government partisans from within Russia.
In 2022 and 2023, a number of Russian businessmen were found dead under suspicious circumstances. [9] [10] [11] In addition, Ukraine was accused of being behind attacks against pro-war figures, such as in the killing of Darya Dugina. [12] [13] Vladlen Tatarsky was an influential Russian military blogger with more than 560,000 followers on ...
The mass shooting occurred at School No. 88 (Russian: Школа № 88) in Izhevsk, Udmurtia, Russia [8] at around 10:52 a.m. [9] Armed with two pistols and a large supply of ammunition, the gunman, Artyom Kazantsev, entered the school and opened fire on several classrooms. Throughout the shooting, he burst through several classrooms and ...