The recent terrorist attack at a rock concert on the outskirts of Moscow was the deadliest such episode in Russia since the Beslan school massacre in 2004, which came only two years after the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, giving Russia an awful distinction. Among the UN Security Council’s Permanent Five members, Russia has been a prime target for mass casualty (10 deaths or more) terrorist attacks, ranking first in overall attacks and second in fatalities since 2000, behind the United States, where over 90 percent of such fatalities occurred on September 11, 2001.[1]
The reasons for…
