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[175] [176] US officials said they had intelligence indicating that IS–KP had been planning an attack on Moscow. [32] On 23 March, IS released photos of the attackers and a full report on the attack. [2] [177] Later the same day, the IS-affiliated Amaq News Agency released a one and a half-minute-long video of the attack, filmed by one of the ...
The hostages were seized on 23 October at the House of Culture of State Ball-Bearing Plant Number 1 in the Dubrovka area of Moscow about four kilometers south-east of the Moscow Kremlin. [9] During Act II of a sold-out performance of Nord-Ost a little after 9:00 PM, 40–50 heavily armed masked men and women drove in a bus to the theater and ...
The August 2004 Moscow metro bombing took place at about 20:17 MSK on 31 August 2004, when a female suicide bomber blew herself up outside Rizhskaya metro station, [1] killing at least 10 people and wounding 50.
The Crocus City Hall (Russian: Крокус Сити Холл, romanized: Krokus Siti Kholl) is a music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is part of the Crocus City development, which also includes the Crocus City Mall , Crocus Expo and Vegas City Hall [ ru ] .
The crisis ended with Yeltsin using military force to attack Moscow's House of Soviets and arrest the lawmakers. In Russia, the events are known as the " October Coup " ( Russian : Октябрьский путч , romanized : Oktyabr'skiy putch ) or " Black October " ( Russian : Чëрный октябрь , romanized : Chornyi Oktyabr' ).
On September 28, 1991, only a month after the August Putsch failed, 500,000 (the figure stated in the notes of the original VHS and subsequent DVD release) rock and metal music fans converged in Moscow at Tushino Airfield for the first open-air rock concert, as part of the Monsters of Rock series. The concert was completely free, causing many ...
The Moscow Metro [a] is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union .
Mayakovsky Theater (Russian: Театр Маяковского; Московский академический театр имени Вл. Маяковского) is a theater in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1920, first as Terevsat (Theater of Revolutionary Satire, 1920-1922), then Revolution Theater (1922-1943) and Drama Theater (1944-1953).