Russia on the Record

Moscow Concert Hall Attack: What We Know and Why It Happened

Episode Summary

The attack on Crocus City Hall has become the deadliest attack in Russia’s modern history. Its repercussions for Russian society are already being felt, with a spike in xenophobic sentiment against people from Central Asia. For this episode, we talked to Ruslan Suleymanov, an expert on Central Asia, about how the attack was possible in Moscow, despite the city’s heightened security measures. Find us at: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MoscowTimes/ https://twitter.com/moscowtimes https://t.me/moscowtimes_en https://www.instagram.com/themoscowtimes/

Episode Notes

The attack on Crocus City Hall has become the deadliest attack in Russia’s modern history. Its repercussions for Russian society are already being felt, with a spike in xenophobic sentiment against people from Central Asia.

For this episode, we talked to Ruslan Suleymanov, an expert on Central Asia, about how the attack was possible in Moscow, despite the city’s heightened security measures.

Find us at: 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/

https://www.facebook.com/MoscowTimes/

https://twitter.com/moscowtimes

https://t.me/moscowtimes_en

https://www.instagram.com/themoscowtimes/