Theater CrisisAbout 40 Chechen militants on Oct. 23, 2002 stormed a Moscow theater where a popular musical was underway, taking some 850 people hostage and planting explosives in the auditorium.
They demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
Two days later, a severe explosion shook the building and Russian forces rushed in.
A suicide bomber killed 41 people on a Moscow subway train in February 2004.
Suicide bombings of two Moscow subway trains about 40 minutes apart in March 2010 killed about 40 people.
Persons:
Vladimir Putin's, Friday's, Putin, Shamil Basayev
Organizations:
Crocus City Hall, Islamic, Officials, Federal Security Service, Public Transport, Air Transport, Moscow's Domodedovo, Islamic State
Locations:
Moscow, Crocus, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Ryazan, Russian, Chechen, Beslan, Volgograd, St, Petersburg, Moscow's