Volgograd: 'Ten dead' in second blast to hit Russian city

BBC ^ | Monday, December 30, 2013

[kristinn]

At least 10 people have been killed and 10 others injured in an explosion on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, Russian media report.

The blast comes a day after 17 people died in a suicide bomb attack at the central station in the city.

Security has been tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia.

Moscow is concerned militant groups could be ramping up violence in the run-up to the 2014 winter Olympic Games in the city of Sochi.

The Olympic venue is close to Russia's volatile north Caucasus region.

Volgograd lies about 900km (560 miles) south of Moscow, 650km north of the North Caucasus and 700km north-east of Sochi.

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[SevenofNine]

I think ole Vlady go Ivan the Terrible on muslums LOL!

He love being Tsars of all Russias

[BuckeyeTexan]

Go get ‘em Vladimir. Stay on the porch with Bo, Barack.

[GarySpFc]

There have been three bombings in Volgograd during the last two days, but for some reason the media is not reporting the last one. Apparently, a bomb went off in as Marshuka (taxi).

[a fool in paradise]

BUMP

And here is the money quote:

Bandar told Putin, "...The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us...

[redleghunter]

I am sure Putin will ensure the party or parties involved are dealt with. I hope your wife’s family and friends are ok.

[patriotsoul]

Perhaps we can get John Kerry to host a summit meeting — maybe a beer summit?

[itssme]

Knock em’ off, and stack em’ up like so much wood. Muzzies need to meet their match..the bear has sharp teeth and a steely resolve.

[itssme]

Love it! Barack and his namesake BO,..obozo didn’t think we
we’d get it, but we get it!

[TurboZamboni]

This is 400 miles from Sochi , isn’t it?

I think it would be like if like if an terrorist attack happened in Omaha.

Nobody in the mainstream national media here would care. As long as their east and west coast headquarters are safe and the pols in DC would get more security.

[redleghunter]

Doubt Putin would be in for Western versions of “peace negotiations.” I am thinking a response like the second Grozny campaign will come about. They learned the first time through Grozny that light footing it around with terrorists is deadly business.

[SevenofNine]

Of course not one thing about Vlady and Russia leader they don’t care what this current admisnation think

Question who most bad*** Russia leader in History

Vlady
Stalin
Ivan the Terrible

[ek_hornbeck]

So the Saudis won’t control their Chechen ‘clients’ after-all.......

Isn't this what the Saudis promised to Putin in a secret meeting, i.e. "you cut Assad loose, and we'll put a leash on our Chechen agents before the Olympics." He didn't cut Assad loose, and the Saudis didn't muzzle their Chechen friends, as promised.

[Biggirl]

Thankfully Americans are armed to the teeth.

[yadent]

Well I guess the question now is will Putin chop off the ‘head’ of the snake or just cut up the tail a little.....

[steelhead_trout]

History is full of should haves, but Russia should have cut Chechnya loose when the USSR collapsed, instead of beating it into submission, losing 30,000 troops in the process and killing God knows how many Chechen civilians. Had that happened (and this was Yeltsin’s fault, not Putin’s), Chechnya would have been just another Central Asian republic, instead of a terrorist hotbed. And all of Putin’s he-man poses and the unfortunate conservative bromance with a former KGB staff officer won’t change this fact.

[andyk]

What is that?

[dfwgator]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamayev_Kurgan

[andyk]

Thanks. Holy crap, that thing is enormous!