Russian authorities immediately called the Moscow restaurant explosion a terrorist attack — then stopped talking about it
On the evening of August 1, an explosion occurred at the upscale restaurant Balzi Rossi on Kudrinskaya Square in central Moscow. Within two hours, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee officially stated that it had been a bomb explosion, and the next morning Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin called what happened a terrorist attack and promised that those responsible “will definitely be found.” After…
On the evening of August 1, a bomb explosion occurred at the upscale Balzi Rossi restaurant in central Moscow, according to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. Mayor Sergey Sobyanin immediately claimed it was a terrorist attack. The authorities then abruptly ceased discussion of the incident. Questions remain unanswered: the motive behind the explosion, how many victims there were, the identity of the woman who delivered the bomb, and the status of the ongoing investigation.
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