Explosions in Moscow: 2 subway explosions, 25+ dead

[Serb]

What do you need a waterpark for anyway?
You can drown yourself in any available water source and do the free world a great favor.

[dannubis]

Being altruistic there Serb ?

[Serb]

No sh!t, Sherlock (c).

[Wezil]

Did you ever own a Lada Serb?

They are cool cars.

[Serb]

Did you ever own a Lada Serb?

I did.

They are cool cars.

They are not. At least not the one I owned.

If you need an example of a decent Russian car, check this:






http://jalopnik.com/5360581/marussia...cond-super-car


More "pathetic Russian Ladas" for you:









Care to show a single Canadian not so Lada car?

[dannubis]

Where are the pedals ?

[Wezil]

Meh. I prefer the Lada. It had a more Russian feel.

[Asher]

2 more bombs, 12 more people...

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/788030--bombs-kill-12-in-russia-days-after-metro-attacks?bn=1

Bombs kill 12 in Russia days after metro attacks

MAKHACHKALA-Two suicide bombers — including one impersonating a police officer — killed 12 people Wednesday in southern Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the blasts may have been organized by the same militants who attacked the Moscow subway.

The powerful former president had previously vowed to “drag out of the sewer” the terrorists behind the attacks in Moscow, which killed 39 people and injured scores of commuters during Monday’s rush hour.

Wednesday’s blasts struck in the province of Dagestan. Bombings and other attacks occur almost daily in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, provinces in Russia’s North Caucasus region where government forces are struggling against a separatist Islamist insurgency.

“I don’t rule out that this is one and the same gang,” Putin said at a televised Cabinet meeting.

President Dmitry Medvedev said later the attacks were “links of the same chain.”

The Moscow subway bombings were the first suicide attacks in the Russian capital in six years and shocked a country that had grown accustomed to having such violence confined to its restive southern corner. Those attacks followed a warning from an Islamic militant leader that the militants would bring their struggle to the heart of Russia.

On Wednesday, a suicide bomber in a car detonated explosives when police tried to stop the car in the town of Kizlyar near Dagestan’s border with Chechnya, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said.

“Traffic police followed the car and almost caught up — at that time the blast hit,” Nurgaliyev said.

As investigators and residents gathered around the scene of the blast, a second bomber wearing a police uniform approached and set off explosives, killing the town’s police chief among others, Nurgaliyev said.

Nine police were among the dead from both blasts, and at least 23 other people were injured, authorities said. A school and police station nearby were also damaged.

Grainy cellphone video footage posted on the life.ru news portal showed the moment of the second blast, with officials wandering past a destroyed building before a loud clap rings out and smoke rises in the distance. Television pictures later showed a few gutted cars, damaged buildings and a roughly 2-metre (six-foot) deep crater in the road.

Police and security services are a frequent target because they represent the Kremlin — the militants’ ideological enemy — but also because of their heavy-handed tactics. Police have been accused of involvement in many killings, kidnappings and beatings in the North Caucasus, further alienating residents.

A report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies said 916 people died in the North Caucasus in 2009 in violence related to the clashes, up from 586 in 2008. Another monitoring group, the Caucasian Knot, reported the region suffered 172 terrorist attacks last year, killing 280 people in Chechnya, 319 in Ingushetia and 263 in Dagestan.

In January in Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital, a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at a police station, killing six officers. In August, 24 died and more than 200 were injured when a man crashed a bomb-laden van into the police station in Nazran, Ingushetia.

The bloodshed has continued despite Kremlin efforts to stem it. Medvedev, who claims the militants have spread through the North Caucasus “like a cancerous tumour,” this year appointed a deputy prime minister to oversee the troubled region and address the root causes of terrorism, including dire poverty and corruption.

Rebels from the North Caucasus were accused of masterminding the Moscow attack, but no claims of responsibility have been made. Speculation has been rife that the attacks were retaliation for the recent police killings of high-profile militants in the North Caucasus.

Monday’s subway bombings, carried out by two women, were the first terrorist attacks in Moscow since 2004.

The first blast struck the Lubyanka station in central Moscow, beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service or FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency. The FSB is a symbol of power under Putin, a former KGB officer who headed the agency before his election as president in 2000.

About 45 minutes later, a second blast hit the Park Kultury station on the same subway line, which is near the renowned Gorky Park. In both cases, the bombs were detonated as the trains pulled into the stations and the doors were opening.

[germanos]

From what I gathered during the last couple of days of reporting on this subject is that in the northern Caucasus (=southern Russia) these kind of (suicide) bombings are a regular occurance, though they rarely get any (media) attention. Neither in Russia or the West.

So apparently this latest attack in Dagestan is nothing new. The whole of the Caucasus is a bloody mess. It's only being reported since bombs hit Moscow.

[giblets]

I don't understand the reasoning behind these bombings. Russians are already doing a fine job of reducing their numbers.

[onodera]

Our former secretary, who now works in a different department situated in the bank's HQ on Park Kultury, was late for work on Monday. She's ****ing ecstatic she missed that train.

[DaShi]

They should fire her for unexcused tardiness.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'd just like to comment that when Georgia invades a separatist territory, they're war criminals in Serb's eyes, but when Russia invades a separatist territory, they're just maintaining their empire.

But I don't think any of you need convincing that Serb is retarded.

Also, onodera: Lucky!

Also: Death count up to 50

[David Floyd]

Here's hoping that Russia catches and deals with the perpetrators of this pretty quickly.

I've been saying for years, and will continue to say, that the US and Russia should NOT be competitors. Why is this necessary? If the US and Russia can fully cooperate, I think there's a very real chance we can eliminate major international terrorism. Maybe this latest attack will draw both nations closer together. I hope.

[Elok]

I assume it's a combination of Cold War Russians-are-evil inertia and the fact that their present government is a sort of weird hamfisted ex-spy aristocracy posing as a republic. OTOH, we've whored out a bunch of our other principles to fight terrorism, so why not?