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A view of emergency services attending the scene outside the metro station following the explosion in St Petersburg on April 3, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Anton Vaganov

Gunman Attacks Regional Russian Security Service Office as Metro Bombing Death Toll Rises

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 21, 2017 | World

Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Friday that a gunman killed two people in an attack on one of its regional offices in the far east of the country. The gunman burst into the office in the Khabarovsk region, which is close to China and opened fire,...

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A woman places flowers in honor of the victims of the subway blast in St. Petersburg on April 4, 2017. (AFP)

Glimpses of the St. Petersburg Bombing Victims

by Andrew Roth and David Filipov | Apr 7, 2017 | World

St. Petersburg – He was a 22-year-old from the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. She was a 21-year-old from Azerbaijan. They were part of the modern-day fabric of Russia’s melancholy old imperial city. He was the bomber, police say. She was one of his 14...

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A woman stands at a symbolic memorial at Technologicheskiy Institute subway station in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 5, 2017. (AP)

Russia Arrests Suspected Accomplices of St. Petersburg Bomber

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 6, 2017 | World

Several people were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of being accomplices of the man behind Monday’s St. Petersburg metro bombing, news agency Interfax reported on Thursday, citing a law enforcement source. It said the detainees’ links with the suicide bomber...

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A woman lights a candle at a symbolic memorial at Sennaya subway station in St Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

Russian Terrorist Behind Saint Petersburg Blast

by Taha Abed alWahed | Apr 5, 2017 | World

Moscow- Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC) said on Tuesday it identified the suspect who carried out the terrorist attack in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg that killed 14 people and injured 49. The man’s name is Akbarjon Djalilov, born in 1995 in...