Nov 29, 2009, 13:12 GMT
Berlin - Russia has seen a resurgence in terrorist attacks in recent years. Details of some of the more significant attacks:
<#> August 17, 2009: A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck carrying 200 kilograms of explosives blows himself up in the city of Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.
August 21, 2006: A shrapnel bomb explodes explodes at a market in Moscow, killing 10 people and injuring 50.
October 13, 2005: Islamist rebels attack the southern city of Nalchik in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. At least 137 people are killed in the clashes that follow, including 92 rebels, 33 security forces and 12 civilians.
July 19, 2005: A bomb attack on militia's in Snamenskoye, north- west of the Chechen capital Grozny, claims at least 14 lives and injures 34.
June 12, 2005: A bomb is remotely detonated along a railway line near Moscow. Several carriages of a train travelling from Chechnya are derailed. Forty-two people are injured.
September 1, 2004: Gunmen attack a school in Beslan, a town in the autonomous Caucasus republic of North Ossetia-Alania and hold more than 1,100 children, parents and teachers hostage for 52 hours. In all, 331 of the hostages and 31 terrorists are killed.
February 6, 2004: A bomb in a Moscow subway kills round 40 commuters. Police say the suicide bomber is of Chechen origin.
August 24, 2004: Two passenger jetliners, with terrorists carrying explosive devices on board, crash in western Russia, killing 90.
December 27, 2002: A suicide bomber drives a explosives-laden truck into government buildings in Grozny, killing 60 people.
October 23, 2002: 41 Chechen rebels take 800 people hostage at a musical theatre in Moscow. Police storm the building three days later. All the terrorists and 129 hostages are killed. <#>
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