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For many Russians, the bloodbath at a live performance corridor on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday evening delivered to thoughts shootings and bombings throughout the nation in latest a long time, occasions that the authorities usually described as terrorism.
The authorities linked lots of these assaults to Russia’s wars in opposition to Chechen separatists within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. Those conflicts helped allow the rise of Vladimir V. Putin, who over his twenty years in energy has sought to challenge a picture of being powerful on terrorism.
2002: Moscow theater disaster
In the early 2000s, Chechen militants staged a number of main terrorist assaults, as Russia waged a second struggle to defeat a separatist motion in Chechnya. In October 2002, dozens of Chechen gunmen seized a crowded Moscow theater, taking greater than 750 individuals hostage.
The siege lasted for days, till Russian particular forces stuffed the theater with a debilitating gasoline to incapacitate the gunmen. More than 100 hostages died because of the raid, with many of the deaths attributed to the gasoline. The Russian authorities later acknowledged that it had pumped in an aerosol model of fentanyl in its try to finish the standoff.
2004: Beslan college siege
In September 2004, Chechen militants swept into a faculty in Beslan, a metropolis within the North Caucasus, taking greater than 1,000 individuals hostage, together with 770 youngsters, and rigging the constructing with explosives.
Three days after the siege started, Russian safety forces armed with tanks, rockets, grenade launchers and different weapons stormed the varsity, which caught hearth as they engaged in gun battles with the Chechen fighters.
More than 330 hostages — together with 186 youngsters — died within the battle, main the European Court of Human Rights to resolve over a decade later that the Russian authorities had violated European human rights legislation of their dealing with of the siege. The Kremlin rejected the conclusion.
2010-11: Moscow bombings
Bombers detonated two explosives at landmark subway stations in Moscow in March 2010, killing at the least 38 individuals. The assault, resembling a subway bombing that killed about 40 individuals in 2004, revived fears that the Chechen insurgency had not been quelled, and a Chechen militant chief claimed to have ordered the assault.
In 2011, a bomber attacked Moscow’s busiest airport, Domodedovo, killing 37 individuals. The Russian authorities later mentioned that the bomber was a person from the North Caucasus.
2017: St. Petersburg metro bombing
A home made system stuffed with shrapnel exploded throughout rush hour, killing at the least 14 individuals. Officials named the bomber as a member of the Uzbek minority in southern Kyrgyzstan, and mentioned they have been investigating whether or not he had any hyperlinks to Islamist extremists.
2022: Izhevsk capturing
About 600 miles east of Moscow, a gunman attacked a faculty within the metropolis of Izhevsk, killing 15 individuals, in what the Kremlin known as a terrorist assault.
The authorities mentioned the attacker, who had been armed with two pistols, “was sporting a black prime with Nazi symbols and a balaclava” and was not carrying any ID.
