This device sounds more “bespoke” that “improvised”, a specific device for a special job with a custom detonator, a one meter crater isn’t unusual for a Russian road, so it would only be effective on a rail line for derailing a train.
]]>I would imagine that Putin rides that train, as he is from St. Petersburg, so the heat is on to arrest someone. Alas, friend Vladimir is not apt to be satisfied with possible criminals, having been KGB, so he will probably be avoiding the train for a while.
]]>The FSB [new and improved KGB] mentioned rightwing neoNazi groups as well as the usual suspects from the North Caucasus which leads me to believe that they have been suspecting that the groups were going to do something. Chechens are under tight control inside Russia proper and generally stay in the large cities where they can hide. This would be a lot easier to arrange for someone who worked on the railroad and/or was an ethnic Russian.
We’ll have to wait to see if anyone lays claim to this, although a Chechen group might just for the “glory”. The skinheads have been getting nasty in Moscow, and other cities and were usually ignored by authorities as a nuisance only for non-Russians. This was an attack on the elites, so someone is going to pay, and quickly.
]]>– Badtux the Geopolitical Penguin
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