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For Islamic State or al-Qaeda, Putin’s military interventions in Syria and Chechnya are no different from America’s in Iraq or Libya. The presence of a large Russian military base in predominantly Sunni Muslim Tajikistan — the ex-Soviet country that the arrested suspects may have been from — is no less offensive to Islamist ideas than the presence of US military bases in the Gulf. Russia is for them a part of the Christian West. It doesn’t belong anywhere on the territory of their imagined Islamic caliphate

The US has maintained that it has intelligence that confirms that the Islamic State is responsible for the shooting, as they claimed. However, Putin is questioning Washington's stance.

“Let us pray for all our brothers and sisters who are suffering because of war,” Pope Francis said.

Flagrant display of abuse demonstrates extent to which Russian society has become militarised and tolerant of violence since the war in Ukraine began, according to experts

The Russian court said two of the defendants had pleaded guilty, and one of them, from Tajikistan, had "entirely acknowledged his guilt"