Terrorism in Russia (merged thread)

[Tukhachevskii]

Dagestan has also been subject to twin bombings two days after Moscow (is there something about the No.2 I am missing here? Or is it pure coincidence?) It appears from initial reports that the perpetrators had similar targetting priorities to the Moscow group with Interiro Ministry and FSB facilities being targetted (could also have been a school). Perpetrators also enacted deception and security measures (apparently) by impersonating police/militsia officers. It is more likely the second bomber was ordered to cause as much havoc and destruction at whatever target the first managed to attack which see here:

Explosion In Dagestan Causes Casualties

also

Putin's anti-terror policies as President are under fire following Moscow Metro bombings

meanwhile

Families mourn for 39 victims of blast

[bourbon]

Perpetrators also enacted deception and security measures (apparently) by impersonating police/militsia officers.

They frequently do this. One particularly ugly example was during the 2004 raid on Nazran in Ingushetia which killed around 100 law enforcement officers (they mostly spared the traffic police). They set up a roadblock dressed as local law enforcement and checked motorists documents; any responding law enforcement officers were executed.

Local police in Dagestan are thoroughly penetrated by the rebels, and corruption is rife. The bomber may well have even been an actual policeman.

[kaur]

24 January 2011 Last updated at 17:06 GMT

Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport

Moscow's Domodedovo airport has been rocked by a bomb explosion that an airport spokesman says has killed 35 people.

More than 100 people were injured - 20 of them critically - by the blast, which reports suggest was the work of a suicide bomber.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12268662

[Stan]

24 January 2011 Last updated at 17:06 GMT

Moscow bombing: Carnage at Russia's Domodedovo airport

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12268662

Hey Kaur,
We just finished clearing up the Tallinn airport following a bomb threat this evening. One wonders however, if some sort of sick solidarity now exists in Estonia. At least our pathetic threat mongers fortunately remain with little more than empty words and worthless deeds.

The death toll now according to ETV is at 35 and growing with a purported trail of evidence leading directly to the Northern Caucasus region.

Stay Safe, Stan

[Kevin23]

As the following piece points out, while all attention seems to be focused on the Eurozone bailouts for Ireland, Portugal, and maybe even Spain. Another similarly fashioned bailout is in the process of occurring in Eastern Europe for Belarus, a nation led by an autocratic President who is an ally of Russian PM Vladimir Putin. And whose country he has led since the breakup of the USSR, still maintains most of the old Soviet trappings such as a mostly Socialist command economy, and an undemocratic society where the political status quo is maintained by the state KGB whose name and habits haven't changed from the time of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, due to the kleptocratic and antiqued nature of the Belorussian economy, the state find's it's bankrupt and consistently dependent on big brother to the east. Which leaves Belarus turning to Russia and other better off autocratic former Soviet states for emergency economic assistance in the form of a bailout.

It will be interesting to see where this leads, as the Russians are supposedly demanding a number of concessions from the Belorussian political leadership for this to move forward.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/wo...s-Belarus.html

http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/pos...anging_belarus

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Great site for those interested in Russian terrorism issues.

This week’s Top Extremism- and Terrorism-Related Stories in Russia http://extremistrussia.com/2015/04/0...-3-april-2015/ …

[davidbfpo]

Recommended by a "lurker" and rather optimistic given the insurgency in the Caucasus, even if that is "contained":http://sputniknews.com/russia/201608...m-lessons.html

It ends with - no, not a hint at influencing Europe:

Ultimately, Naryshkin emphasized that unfortunately, there are never any guarantees of complete safety against terrorism. Nevertheless, given the series of measures Russian security services have at their disposal, Russians can look confidently toward the professionalism of the security services to protect against the threat. European countries, meanwhile, may just have something to take away from the Russian experience.

[davidbfpo]

A strange criminal case in Russia:

On 14 February 2017, a trial against two alleged “terrorists”, Artur Panov and Maksim Smyshlyaev, opened in the North Caucasus District Military Court. The prosecution claimed that before prior to arrest in December 2015, Panov, an underage Ukrainian citizen, planned to organise a series of explosions in Rostov-on-Don and manufactured an explosive device with which to carry them out. Maksim Smyshlyaev, a Russian student, supposedly offered to help him, providing him with advice on the best way to plan and carry out terrorist acts.

Somehow the case has ended up with prosecuting Maksim with:

...a new definition of terrorism — here, it’s the desire to dissuade a terrorist from carrying out any terrorism.

Link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-rus...-army-faction?

Artur Panov the aspiring terrorist appears to have mental health issues; now where have we heard that CT investigations have found that too?

[mirhond]

A strange criminal case in Russia

A common thing those days - recent anti-everything law amendments allow to prosecute anyone as extremist\separatist\enemy of the state for SMS, single (re)post or even holding an invisible posters

[davidbfpo]

An assessment by two UK-based SME after the St. Petersburg Metro bombing; it also looks at who might have been behind the attack:https://theconversation.com/russias-domestic-terrorism-threat-is-serious-sophisticated-and-complex-75869?