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Russia cannot be a target for Islamic fundamentalists, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after at least 144 people were killed near Moscow in a mass shooting that was claimed by Islamic State militants. “We have every reason to believe that the main goal of those who ordered the bloody, awful terrorist act in…
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The UK’s deputy head of mission to Russia was among the foreign diplomats who laid flowers at Crocus City Hall today (more in earlier post). Many attended with bouquets of red flowers, which they laid on top of a makeshift memorial which emerged in the wake of the attack last Friday. In a post to…
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Foreign diplomats in Russia have laid flowers at the site of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people. Those in attendance included British deputy head of mission to Russia Tom Dodd and representatives of the US, countries in the EU, Africa and Latin America. Russian state news agency RIA…
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Authorities in Tajikistan have detained nine people believed to have links to the Moscow concert hall shooting suspects, as well as terror group Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), a security source has reportedly told the Reuters news agency. All nine people were detained on Monday in the city of Vakhdat and have been brought to the…
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Actor Steven Seagal – who once hailed Vladimir Putin as “one of the great living world leaders” – has been pictured in Russia, visiting the victims of the Moscow terror attack. The health ministry revealed the former Hollywood star, 71, visited the National Medical and Surgical Centre, where he met three victims and “thanked them…
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The Kremlin “likely aims to seize” on the fears and anger of Russian citizens after the Moscow hall shooting to further cast Ukraine as “terrorists” and the West the “sponsor” of terrorism. That’s the analysis of the US-based Institute for the Study of War, in its latest analysis of the Russia-Ukraine war. “Russian officials are…
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The number of people dead from last week’s Moscow concert hall attack has risen to 143, according to Russian authorities. The updated figure from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry did not state the number of wounded. However, health minister Mikhail Murashko said on Wednesday that 80 people were in hospital and another 205 had sought medical treatment…
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A vigil has been held in an area of Russian-occupied Ukraine for the victims of the concert hall attack near Moscow. People gathered with candles to pay tribute in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk – more than half of which is under Russian control. Lit candles formed the message: “DPR [Donetsk People’s Republic]. We…
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Experts say Islamic State ‘very likely’ carried out concert attack – and reject false flag theories The Islamic State is very likely responsible for the concert shooting, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has said. Both the conduct of the attack and the style of the IS announcement were consistent with their previous…
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Inside Crocus City Hall, members of Russia’s emergencies ministry have been carrying out search and rescue operations. Photographs show staff clearing rubble and dismantling metal supports following the blaze. Elsewhere in the building, a white piano was pictured surrounded by ash.
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The Kremlin has released footage of Vladimir Putin attending a vigil for those killed in the Crocus City Hall attack. Without giving his location, the video showed the Russian president placing a candle below the figure of Jesus Christ, before crossing himself several times. “The president paid tribute to those killed in the terrorist attack…
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