MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Leonid Ragozin in Moscow, The Guardian, 29 Dec., 2013
Sixteen people were killed and another 50 injured after a suicide bombing at a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd that highlighted the region's security vulnerability just six weeks before the Winter Olympics.
The blast ripped through an area between the station entrance and metal frames that had been installed as a precaution against terror attacks. There were conflicting reports on the identity of the perpetrator; the authorities first indicated that a young woman from the Caucasus may have been responsible, as in previous attacks in Russia over the past decade. But latterly, news agencies reported that it was a man wearing a rucksack who was behind the attack, though he may not have been acting alone.
CCTV video shows a bright flash of light inside the station building [....]
More details and analysis @
At Least 15 Are Killed in Explosion at Russian Rail Station
By Steven Lee Myers in Moscow, New York Times, Dec. 29, 2013
Comments
Russian news sources are notoriously unreliable especially concerning terrorist hits, but FWIW:
The above article mentions a photo of the severed head being published in Life News; that can be found at the end of the Life News article in Russian here.
by artappraiser on Mon, 12/30/2013 - 12:23am
Nevermind. I should have trusted my gut and not bothered to post it, it's likely it's not true, but conjecture and embellishment based on initial reports that the bomber was a woman. Subsequent reports, which include the report of the second bombing in Volgograd Monday, of a bus, virtually all say that both bombings were executed by men.
On Tuesday the government was cracking down heavy in Volgograd on ethnics from troublesome regions, with massive police presence, arrests of "usual suspects" Casablanca style, and "stop and frisk" type measures:
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2013 - 4:28am
Masha Gessen explains this culture quirk:
She then describes the various iterations of the story that followed, and then this:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/11/2014 - 10:13pm
The interactive map follows @ the top link.
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2013 - 4:36am
from
Volgograd: many dead in second explosion in Russian city
At least 14 people killed in trolleybus explosion, the day after 17 died in another suicide attack at city's railway station
By Leonid Ragozin in Moscow, theguardian.com, 30 Dec. 2013
by artappraiser on Tue, 12/31/2013 - 4:48am
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 5:14am
Note sidebar analysis on same page, by Oleg Boldyrev BBC Russian, Volgograd:
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 5:24am