Paul Goble
Staunton,
November 28 – Early this morning, several thousand people were evacuated from 10
shopping centers and 12 large stores in Moscow after someone telephoned the
authorities to say bombs had been planted in them. No bombs were found, but the
FSB blamed this new outburst of “telephone terrorism” on the deteriorating
situation in Ukraine.
A
source close to the Russian security service told the RBC news agency that the
phone calls had come from Ukraine. The source said that a similar bomb threat
had forced the evacuation of 407 pupils and 27 teachers and staff from a Moscow
school as well (rbc.ru/society/28/11/2018/5bfe9ffa9a7947ca3ac69a92?from=main).
A year ago, Russia faced a wave of
such telephone calls and evacuations. In September and October 2017 alone, more
than a million people were evacuated from almost 2500 buildings in 170 Russian cities
and towns (novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/10/13/74180-vremya-ryt-okopy
and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/10/telephone-terrorism-continuing-pushing.html).
The Russian authorities did not
report many of these in the central media; nor have they reported sporadic
cases of telephone terrorism since that time. But it now may be the case that
they will play up these events in an effort to stir up war hysteria and
anti-Ukrainian feelings among Russians.
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