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When President Vladimir Putin said "radical Islamists" had carried out the attack, he called it "just an element in a series of attempts of those who have been at war with our country since 2014," an explicit reference to Ukraine and the upheaval that year that led to the illegal annexation of Crimea.
Europe News: Many Central Asians in Russia, especially the Tajik community, have faced heightened xenophobia following the recent attack on a concert hall near Mos.
Rest of World News: NEW DELHI: Russia has raised concerns over the United States' immediate attribution of blame following the recent terror attack in Moscow, with Dmitry.
Russian officials persisted in saying Ukraine and the West had a role in last week's deadly Moscow concert hall attack despite vehement denials of involvement by Kyiv and a claim of responsibility by an affiliate of the Islamic State group.
The National Security Agency in the United States, for example, spied on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone for several years — a fact the US would have preferred had never come to light.