Paul
Goble
Staunton, May 13 – Telephone bomb
threats have forced the suspension of flights in airports in Kazan, Volgograd
and other cities as well as prompted the evacuation of numerous additional
facilities across the North Caucasus (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5CD97EB5E69EB,
idelreal.org/a/29938337.html
and kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/335402/).
No bombs have been found, but such
events are spreading both concern among the population and questions about why the
Moscow authorities with all their power don’t seem to be able to do anything about
this plague, concerns and questions because the central Russian media have
almost completely ignored the bomb threats.
Instead of calming Russians, that almost
certainly has had exactly the opposite effect, allowing social media to play up
these bombing threats implying that there may be even more such dangers than
the regime is admitting. In today’s environment,
those risks are far greater than they were even a year ago.
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