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The 2003 Red Square bombing was the 9 December 2003 suicide bombing on Mohovaja street in Moscow.. According to police, a female suicide bomber set off an explosive belt on a busy street close to the Moscow Kremlin, killing six people and injuring 14.
In 1930 The Moscow News was founded by American socialist Anna Louise Strong, who was one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919. [1] It was approved by the Communist leadership—at that time already dominated by Joseph Stalin—in 1930 as an international newspaper with the purpose of spreading the ideas of socialism to international audience.
Map of the Soviet 1941–1942 winter counteroffensive. The winter campaign of 1941–1942 from 5 December 1941 to 7 May 1942 was the name given by Soviet military command to the period that marked the commencement of the Moscow Strategic Offensive Operation (better known as the Battle of Moscow ).
Russia's pre-trial investigation of the Moscow and Volgodonsk bombings was finished in 2002. According to the Russian State Prosecutor office, [ 107 ] [ 125 ] all apartment bombings were executed under command of ethnic Karachay Achemez Gochiyayev and planned by Ibn al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif , Arab militants fighting in Chechnya on the ...
Prior to the attack, Chechen separatists had been responsible for several terrorist attacks in Russia. In 2016, ISIS had plotted to target St. Petersburg due to Russia's military involvement in Syria, resulting in arrests. [53] No public transport system in Russia had been bombed since the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings. [54]
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union.
Moskovskiye Vedomosti (Russian: Московские ведомости, [a] IPA: [mɐˈskofskʲɪje ˈvʲedəməsʲtʲɪ]; lit. ' Moscow News ') was a Russian newspaper.It was the largest newspaper by circulation in Russia before it was overtaken by Saint Petersburg's dailies in the mid-19th century.
The Moscow Campaign, subtitled "Strike and Counterstrike Russia", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1972 that simulates combat near Moscow during World War II. Background