September 1999 |
In a devastating series of attacks, bombs
destroy apartment blocks in the Russian towns of Moscow and
Volgodonsk, killing 246 people. |
August 8 2000 |
A bomb explodes in a busy Moscow
underpass, killing eight people and injuring 50. |
October 23 2002 |
Around 50 Chechen rebels seize a Moscow
theatre and hold about 800 people hostage in a three-day
siege. Most of the rebels and around 120 hostages are killed
when Russian forces use gas to storm the building. |
December 27 2002 |
A suicide lorry-bomb attack destroys the
Grozny headquarters of Chechnya’s Moscow-backed government,
killing 72 people. |
May 12 2003 |
Sixty people are killed in a suicide
bombing on a government compound in northern Chechnya. Two
days later, a woman blows herself up at a religious ceremony
in the republic, killing 18 people. |
July 5 2003
|
Two women suicide bombers kill 14 people
when they blow themselves up at an open-air rock festival at
Moscow's Tushino airfield. Sixty people are injured, and a
15th victim dies later. |
August 1 2003 |
Fifty people, including Russian soldiers
wounded in Chechnya, are killed in a truck-bomb attack on a
military hospital in Mozdok, North Ossetia. |
December 5 2003 |
Forty-four people are killed when a
suicide bomber attacks a train in southern Russia. |
December 9 2003 |
A suicide bombing in central Moscow kills
at least five people. |
February 6 2004 |
In Moscow a suicide bomber blows up a
Metro carriage during the morning rush hour, killing 39
commuters. |
September 1 2004 |
In an attack on a
school in Beslan, a town in North Ossetia, more than 300
people dies in the three-day siege, most of them children. |
October 2005 |
At least eighty-five
people were killed in street fighting in the southern Russia
city of Nalchik after Chechen rebels assaulted government
buildings, telecommunications facilities, and the airport. |