St. Petersburg metro is the fourth largest in Europe by volume (2M+ daily), which makes obvious one of the reasons why it was targeted.
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It appears that this bomb was supposed to be the bigger blast in St. Petersburg, which was avoided.https://twitter.com/rt_com/status/848932527343640580 …
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Unconfirmed media reports that the St. Petersburg blast may have been carried out by a suicide bomber.https://russian.rt.com/russia/news/374965-smi-vzryv-metro-smertnik …
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Updated St. Petersburg-blast figures: 11 dead, 45 injured.
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WaPo is actually reporting about the solidarity of St. Petersburg residents, e.g. free rides for strangers, following the blast.pic.twitter.com/FrTOUvIJQg
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Putin just arrived at the FSB in St. Petersburg to hear their intelligence reports on the blast.
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Putin leaves flowers outside blast site in St. Petersburg.pic.twitter.com/dLEdd91XOl
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Unconfirmed media reports that the alleged suicide bomber in St. Petersburg was a 23-year-old from Central Asia.https://twitter.com/RT_russian/status/848998731483676672 …
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If media reports about a Central Asian suicide bomber are true, then this raises serious security concerns w/ Russia's lack of visas there.
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Russian expert: 75% of those training in terrorist camps in N. Afghanistan are citizens of Central Asia (who can enter Russia w/o visas).
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Russian expert: 42 terrorist acts were thwarted in Russia in 2016.
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St. Petersburg investigation reveals that the one obvious link between 22-yo suicide bomber Jalilov and radicalism is Wahhabi social media.pic.twitter.com/fdAJ13Q80n
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Is this confirmed? Who is this?
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Rossia 24 reported that this was posted hours before the blast (now removed). Who knows: dozens of profiles with this girl's name/photo.pic.twitter.com/ThbQJFyJ0q
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hmmmm...I feel my inner conspiracy theorist stirring 1 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/04/chechen-jihadists-leave-syria-join-the-fight-in-urkaine.html … 2 http://time.com/3893066/chechens-ukraine-war/ … 3https://sputniknews.com/europe/201511281030911832-ukraine-azov-battalion-russia-syria/ …
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A lot of this floating around:https://twitter.com/kryzhopolrealii/status/848932968659914753 …
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*sigh* Don't feed the beast
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Ukrainians or Chechens? Or Soros? Or a mix of them?
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Is that a pressure cooker?
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How convenient for the Kremlin...
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