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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Russia accuses an 'unfriendly state' of planning the 2004 Moscow concert hall assault

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One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials asserted Saturday that it was planned and organized by "the special services of an unfriendly state.”

The aim, according to a a statement by Svetlana Petrenko, the representative of the Russian Investigative Committee, was to "destabilize the situation in Russia.”

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