2006 Moscow market bombing

Infobox terrorist attack
title=2006 Moscow market bombing


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location=Moscow, Russia
target=Outdoor market
date=August 21, 2006
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type=Time bombing
fatalities=13
injuries=47
perps=Russian ultra-nationalists

The 2006 Moscow market bombing occurred on August 21, 2006, when a self-made bomb of the power of more than 1kg of TNT exploded at Moscow's Cherkizovsky Market frequented by the foreign merchants. [ [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/08/22/001.html Market Blast Kills 10 and Injures 55 ] ] In 2008, eight members of the racialist organization The Saviour ("Спас") were sentenced for their roles in the attack. [ [http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CE01B4F-F6C4-4769-9CF0-1CE5C47ADDF0.htm Russian court jails market bombers] Al Jazeera. 15 May 2008.]

Many traders at the market are from Asia and the Caucasus. As of October 3, 2006, 13 persons were confirmed dead: six citizens of Tajikistan, three citizens of Uzbekistan, two citizens of Russia, a woman from Belarus, and a man who was a Chinese citizen. Eight people died on the scene, two in the hospital on the same day as the bombing, and three at a later date. The latest person to die of the bombing was a man who was a citizen of Tajikistan who died on September 28 2006, in a hospital. [ [http://www.gazeta.ru/2006/10/03/last218539.shtml Газета.Ru - Число жертв взрыва на Черкизовском рынке достигло 13 ] ]

Two ethnic Russian suspects were arrested, and the general prosecutor of Moscow Yuri Syomin charged them of a racially-motivated murder. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200756.html 2 Accused of Hate Crime in Moscow Blast ] ] [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5274488.stm BBC NEWS | Europe | Moscow attack 'may be race hate' ] ] The prosecutor's office officially indicted three university students, Oleg Kostyrev, Ilya Tikhomirov (both 20 years old) and Valeri Zhukovtsev (18 years old) on a racially-motivated murder charge on August 22. [ [http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?docsid=699622 Prosecutor's office solved the anti-terrorist act] , Kommersant, August 23, 2006.] The police investigation was finished on August 7, 2007. According to the investigation, Kostyrev, Tikhomirov and Zhukovtsev were members of the nationalistic club The Saviour. The leader of the club, Nikolai Korolev (a former FSB officer), and two more club members, Sergei Klimuk and a police academy student Nikita Sin'kov, were co-indicted with Kostyrev, Tikhomirov and Zhukovtsev on the charges of murder, terrorism, organizing a criminal gang and illegal production and storage of explosives. Sin'kov was also indicted for murder of an Armenian student on a subway. Allegedly, the conspirators have performed numerous explosions before, without any victims, blowing up Azerbaijani-owned stores, an Armenian refugee hostel and an office of a Georgian-born fortune teller. [ [http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?docsid=793804 Terrorists students given up by a diary] , Kommersant, August 8, 2007.]

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