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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.
On 23 June 2024, coordinated attacks were launched in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. [6] [7] Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked simultaneously [8] [9] with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails. [10]
[138] However, it was the last major act of terrorism in Russia until 2009, as Basayev was soon persuaded to give up indiscriminate attacks by new Chechen leader Abdul-Halim Sadulayev, [139] who made Basayev his second-in-command but banned hostage-taking, kidnapping for ransom and operations specifically targeting civilians. [140]
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.
The ministry accused the journalists of entering Russia illegally to report about a "criminal terrorist attack committed by Ukrainian soldiers". [225] On 17 August, the FSB filed a criminal case against journalists Simone Traini and Stefania Battistini for unauthorized entry into Kursk Oblast. [226]
Investigative journalist Yulia Latynina has accused the Russian security services of staging fake terrorist attacks to report false successes in solving those cases, instead of investigating the actual terrorist attacks. [81] Russia reportedly abuses its anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws. [82]
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 ...
[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.