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Considerations regarding the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow

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Andrei Soldatov
Andrei Soldatov

“The problem is to actually be able to prevent terrorist attacks, you need to have a really good and efficient system of intelligence sharing and intelligence gathering. Trust is needed inside the home agency and with agencies of other countries, as is good coordination. That's where you have problems.”

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Expert on Russian intelligence
28 Mar 2024 3 1
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder

“The terrorists' car was stopped near Bryansk, which is in western Russia, and so vaguely near Ukraine, which means that the four Tajiks in a Renault were intending to cross the Ukrainian border, which means that they had Ukrainian backers, which means that it was a Ukrainian operation, which means that the Americans were behind it. The reasoning here leaves something to be desired. And the series of associations rests on no factual basis.”

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Levin Professor of History at Yale
28 Mar 2024 5 1
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Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko

“They [terrorists] could not enter Belarus in any way. They understood that. And so they turned around and went to the section of the Ukrainian-Russian border. As soon as the heads of state received information from special services that the car transporting the terrorists was moving towards Bryansk, an agreement was reached that Belarus would block its section of the alleged criminal movement, while Russia would block its own.”

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President of Belarus
26 Mar 2024 4 1
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Daniel Hoffman
Daniel Hoffman

“You can't do everything. You dial up the pressure on the locals and sometimes you don't get the intelligence you need on a potential terrorist attack. That's where they failed. It's possible they're overextended dealing with the war in Ukraine and dealing with political opposition. This one slipped through the cracks.”

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Former senior CIA operations officer who served as the agency’s Moscow station chief
25 Mar 2024 2 1
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Leonid Ragozin
Leonid Ragozin

“So will Russians blame Putin for failing to avert the tragedy? Collective psychology is notoriously unpredictable. Some may, but it is unlikely that anything would come of it. Even without this attack, it has been clear to the Russian population that the period of stability, security and economic growth that Putin has been lauded for is long over. War is literally at the door with Ukrainian forces conducting incursions into Russian territory, sending drones to strike oil refineries and destroying Russian battleships in the Black Sea.”

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Freelance journalist based in Riga
25 Mar 2024 8 3
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

“We know that the crime was committed by the hands of radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries. This atrocity may be just a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been at war with our country since 2014 with the hands of the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime. Of course, it is necessary to answer the question, 'Why after committing the crime the terrorists tried to go to Ukraine?' Who was waiting for them there?”

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President of Russia
25 Mar 2024 3 2
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Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Peskov

“The investigation is underway. So far, no versions have been put forward at all. Unfortunately, our world shows that no city, no country can be completely immune from the threat of terrorism. Special services worked tirelessly to defend Russia. The fight against terrorism is an ongoing process that requires full-scale international cooperation. But you can see that now in this most acute confrontational period, such cooperation is not being fully carried out in any way.”

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Kremlin spokesman
25 Mar 2024 1 1
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Andras Toth-Czifra
Andras Toth-Czifra

“Russian security personnel have been trained to look at specific, politically important 'threats,'. Due to resource/time/manpower constraints this means that they have less capacity to look at and prevent actual threats.”

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Fellow with the Eurasia Program at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute
24 Mar 2024 (approx) 1 1
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Alexander Vershbow
Alexander Vershbow

“It seems kind of unbelievable that Russian security services missed this. Clearly, it was an intelligence failure for this to happen in such a prominent venue right on the beltway of Moscow, and to have such a serious death toll despite those small number of terrorists that appear to have actually perpetrated the act. The Russians may choose to link this [terrorist attack] to their war against the collective West and hold the U.S. and its Ukrainian proxies - as they might call them - ultimately responsible. I wouldn't be at all surprised. If they decide to emphasize the U.S. and Ukraine link, then I think we can anticipate very harsh measures at home in the wake of this intelligence failure.”

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Former U.S. envoy to Moscow, analyst at the Atlantic Council
23 Mar 2024 5 2
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin

“We are counting here on cooperation with all countries that genuinely share our pain and are ready, in their deeds, to truly unite our efforts in the fight against the common enemy of international terrorism. The main thing now is to prevent those who were behind this bloody massacre from committing new crimes.”

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President of Russia
23 Mar 2024 2 2
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Colin Clarke
Colin Clarke

“ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years. ISIS-K accuses the Kremlin of having Muslim blood in its hands, referencing Moscow's interventions in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Syria.”

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Senior research fellow at the US-based Soufan Centre
23 Mar 2024 4 2
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Nikolay Mitrokhin
Nikolay Mitrokhin

“The Friday attack showed complete impotence of Russia's special services, national guard and the entire law enforcement system. Where are the helicopters for speedy deployment to critical sites in the metropolitan conditions of Moscow? Where are the armed vehicles? Where are these pumped-up stern guys from [promotional] videos? We know where they are - burned down with their vehicles on the roads of the Kyiv region, sitting in underground holes near Donetsk or patrolling the Luhansk region … not where the real danger is but there the crazy president decided to wage a war.”

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Research Fellow at Bremen University
23 Mar 2024 1 1
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Alisher Ilkhamov
Alisher Ilkhamov

“Very probably, Russian special services knew about [the attack] beforehand, and, possibly, they directed it pursuing political goals - to possibly discredit Ukraine, justify a new wave of mobilisation and tighten the screws in general. One just has to ask a question - who will benefit? I'm somewhat doubtful that ISIL has any serious interests in Russia. Putin, on the other hand, does gain from the attack. To become a victim of ISIL is to trigger sympathies worldwide. This is some sort of a public relations [trick] to improve [Russia's] international reputation. So, there's a whole bunch of benefits for Putin's regime. Of course, that cost the lives of his citizens - that he spits on.”

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Head of Central Asia Due Diligence, a think tank in London
23 Mar 2024 4 1
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Dmitry Kolezev
Dmitry Kolezev

“The intelligence services are focused on political investigation and intimidation of citizens. They do not fulfill their direct responsibility to protect society from real threats. The March 22 attack at the Crocus City Hall looks like a grandiose failure on the part of the state. Fantastic amounts of money are spent on 'security,' but in reality, this security is not provided.”

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Russian political observer
22 Mar 2024 4 2
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