From Beslan to Crocus City Hall: all the massacres in Russia

6 FEB 2004 – A bomb, perhaps carried by suicide bombers, explodes on a subway train between the Paveletskaia and Avtozavodskaia stations, close to the center of Moscow: 41 dead and 134 injured. The never-claimed attack is attributed to Chechen fundamentalists.

24 AGO 2004 – Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up on board two Tupolevs which took off a short distance from each other from Moscow: one crashed in the Tula region causing 43 deaths, the other not far from Rostov-on-Don (46 deaths). Attack claimed by the then Chechen guerrilla leader Shamil Basaev.

31 AGO 2004 – A female suicide bomber blows herself up outside the Riskaia station, causing the death of 10 passers-by. Not claimed, this attack is also attributed to the Chechen guerrillas.

1/3 SEPTEMBER 2004 – Beslan (North Ossetia, Russia). An Ingush-Chechen commando takes almost 1,200 people hostage, including children, parents and teachers in a kindergarten on the first day of school. The assault by Russian forces will lead to the release of the hostages, but will have a very heavy toll: 335 dead, including 186 children and 31 kidnappers, plus 400 injured.

29 MAR 2009 – Two explosions, caused by suicide bombers, occur in the Lubianka stations, where the historic headquarters of the security services, the FSB (the former KGB), and in Park Kulturi, near the legendary Gorki Park, are located: the toll is of 38 dead and thirty injured. The attack was claimed by the Chechen Doku Umarov, head of the North Caucasus guerrilla.