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Moscow concert hall shooting a provocation by Putin's FSB - Ukrainian Intel

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Over half of Russians accuse Ukraine of attack at Crocus City near Moscow – survey

Russians aged 31 to 50 have the highest number of those who believe Ukraine was involved in the attack: over 50%, according to the poll by an Anglo-Ukrainian online pollster OpenMinds

byMaria Tril

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Macron says attack in Russia carried out by IS group, warns against accusations of Ukraine

The French president also cautioned Russia against any "exploitation" of the attack (on Ukraine), stating that it would be "cynical and counterproductive for Russia to try to turn this context against Ukraine."

byMaria Tril

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Latest news Ukraine

ISW: Islamic State very likely responsible for Crocus City Hall attack near Moscow

Tactics like those deployed in the 2015 Paris attacks were replicated in the Crocus City assault, lending weight to IS's claim.

byMaria Tril

US sees no link between Ukraine and Moscow concert hall shooting, says White House

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US confirms ISIS behind deadly Moscow concert attack

The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the mass shooting at a concert hall in Moscow on 22 March in a Telegram post released after the attack. The US confirmed this shortly afterward

byMaria Tril

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Terrorist threat to Crimea: Russian ties to the Islamic State

Rabbi Abraham Shmulevich, president of the Institute of Eastern Partnership (Israel) evaluates the accuracy of this report and…

byKseniya Kirillova

Highest numbers of Islamic State's foreign fighters who have gone to Syria or Iraq by their country of origin (Image: The Soufan Center "Beyond the Caliphate: Foreign Fighters and the Threat of Returnees," October 2017, http://thesoufancenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Beyond-the-Caliphate-Foreign-Fighters-and-the-Threat-of-Returnees-TSC-Report-October-2017.pdf)

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“Russia Now Leading Source of ISIS Fighters” and other neglected Russian stories

The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow heavily involved with ISIS and other terrorist groups, Ukraine tells NATO

In the not so distant past, the United States government would have taken the lead in exposing Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

Some of Russia's North Caucasians fighting for ISIS (Image: kavkaz-uzel.eu)

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Number of Russian citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria up dramatically in last year

The Kavkaz-Uzel portal has just published a detailed, 20,000-word study about people from Russia’s North Caucasus who are…

byPaul A. Goble

According to Andrei Piontkovsky, Putin has a broad network of agents in ISIS, a network created and expanded by former KGB chief and Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov. (Image: nr2.com.ua)

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Putin using all means against the West – including Islamist terrorism – Piontkovsky says

Tragically, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Washington does not yet understand that Vladimir Putin is not and will not “struggle…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ethnic Russian Muslims – an increasing problem for Moscow, experts say

In one of the longest, most closely researched and heavily footnoted studied published to date, Rais Suleymanov says…

byPaul A. Goble

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The Orthodox Caliphate in Russia

Why Russia and the “Islamic State” are not really enemies but rivals The Prime Minister of Türkiye Ahmet…

byVitaly Portnikov

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FSB defector’s claims about Moscow’s ties to ISIS consistent with other evidence, Kirillova says

An FSB defector says that Moscow is very closely tied to ISIS and has been involved with groups…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin “played no less role” in creation of ISIS than Stalin did in rise of Nazis, Shmulyevich says

Vladimir Putin should be compared with Stalin rather than with Hitler, Avraam Shmulyevich says, not only because he…

byPaul A. Goble