INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
warn.The Crocus City Hall attack, Russia's deadliest attack in two decades, risks escalating already existing tensions in Russian society,
leading to more state and law enforcement repression and an increase in anti-migrant violence and xenophobia.And as Russia enters its third
Ukraine and its Western allies of being partly responsible for the attack despite the fact that IS has claimed responsibility and Kyiv
strongly denies any involvement.The U.S
had also warned Russian officials in advance that Crocus City Hall was a potential target for a terrorist attack, The Washington Post
officials familiar with the matter.Memorial service for those killed in the attack at Crocus City Hall at a makeshift memorial.Sergei
Kiselev / Moskva News AgencySergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said that Moscow did receive a
warning from the American authorities about a possible terrorist attack but claimed the information was not specific.Security Council chief
City Hall.Citizens queue to donate blood for victims at Crocus City Hall.Pelagia Tikhonova / Moskva News AgencyIn the days following the
attack, hundreds of people stood in long lines at several Moscow hospitals to donate blood to the wounded.At least three people who came to
the tragedy, the Russian government faced widespread pressure to respond decisively.Four suspected shooters were quickly arrested following
the attack along with with several suspected accomplices.Two days after the attack, the four men accused of killing more than 140 people
the suspects was seen being wheeled into court on a gurney, accompanied by a doctor and reportedly unconscious
Another was seen in court with a bandage where his ear should be after an unverified graphic video showed what appeared to be law
enforcement agents cutting off his ear after he was detained.The Crew Against Torture, a prominent human rights NGO that monitors cases of
torture in Russia and provides support to victims, when asked what the suspects' treatment means for Russia, warned that such treatment of
message [to society] is that you can behave cruelly and inhumanely with such people, without even fully understanding whether they are
and security forces may adopt similar tactics in investigating other types of offenses," he said.Death penalty returns to public
halted since a moratorium that was confirmed by the Constitutional Court in 1999.Shortly after the Crocus City Hall attack, former President
Who paid, who sympathized, who helped
lifting the moratorium on the death penalty at a plenary meeting in the State Duma.Rachabalizoda Saidakrami Murodali, detained on suspicion
of attack at Crocus City Hall.Vasily Kuzmichenok / Moskva News AgencyA makeshift memorial in memory of those who died at Crocus City
Hall.Vasily Kuzmichenok / Moskva News AgencyOther officials have called for restraint, however
survey conducted in 2022, 43% of respondents approved of the use of capital punishment in Russia.At least two people who came to lay flowers
the suspects' identities were published, reports emerged of security services conducting widespread raids on migrant communities
Petersburg, authorities have been deporting migrants en masse following the attack, the legal rights group Perviy Otdel said.Moscow
Migration Center in the village of Sakharovo.Kirill Zykov / Moskva News AgencyIn Yekaterinburg, local media reported that migrants who
to the military registration and enlistment office.Russian officials were also considering the establishment of a new department tasked with
overseeing interethnic and migration policies, the Vedomosti business daily reported, citing three sources close to the presidential
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