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Four days after that, in another Moscow neighborhood, a car bomb took 119 lives. A final bomb went off in Volgodonsk, a southern city. ... an ancient city steeped in Russian history not far from ...
The Russian apartment bombings were a series of five bombings in Russia that took place in Moscow and two other Russian towns during ten days of September 1999. Altogether nearly 300 civilians were killed at night. The bombings, together with the Dagestan War, led the country into the Second Chechen War.
The June 2000 Chechnya suicide bombings were Chechnya's first suicide attacks with car bombs. On June 6, 2000, the 17-year-old Khava Barayeva (relative of Arbi Barayev ), accompanied by 16-year-old Luiza Magomadova , drove a truck loaded with explosives through a checkpoint of an OMON base at Alkhan-Yurt in Chechnya.
Darya Dugina was born on 15 December 1992 in Moscow, Russia. [6] She was the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin and his second wife, philosopher Natalya Melentyeva. [7] In 2012/2013, while studying at Moscow State University, she was an intern at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specializing in Ancient Greek philosophy. [8]
The remains of the suicide attacker's decapitated corpse were discovered. Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, condemned the attack as "monstrous". The prime minister, Vladimir Putin, said the attack was designed to "sow enmity between our citizens". He called on Russia's substantial Muslim population to make a "decisive contribution" in the ...
Artyom Borovik investigated the Moscow apartment bombings and prepared a series of publications about them, according to Grigory Yavlinsky. [3] He received numerous death threats and died in an airplane crash in March 2000. [4] Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006. She asked 2004 presidential nominees about the bombings. [5]
1999 Russian apartment bombings (9 P) Pages in category "Attacks on buildings and structures in Moscow" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Shortly after the bombings, the ex-Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Lieutenant General Alexander Lebed claimed that he is "almost certain" that the bombings were organized by the Russian government. [9] In 2002, Lebed died in a helicopter crash. [10] According to Lebed's associates, the crash was caused by an explosive device. [11]