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Moscow forced to revive banned gasoline as fuel crisis bites
Fuel imports are rising as production remains under strain. Authorities are also loosening standards that had been tightened more than a decade ago.
An analyst warns Putin’s effort to project normalcy may have left Moscow exposed after a fatal restaurant bombing reportedly targeted a senior Russian general at a private celebration.
The deadly blast took place in a venue near the centre of the city, but the cause is currently unclear.
Moscow’s mayor says a bomb blast that killed at least five people including the woman carrying the device and injured 19 others at a restaurant was a “terrorist attack.”
Moscow's mayor has called a bomb attack on a restaurant a "brutal terrorist act" but hasn't specified who is responsible. The blast on Saturday at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian
The authorities did not name those killed or injured nor did they say who they thought might have been responsible.
Among the victims of the explosion, which also injured 21 people, were a security guard and a woman who the authorities say had arrived with the suspicious package.
An explosion Saturday at a Moscow restaurant that killed three people and wounded 21 others was a bombing, Russian authorities said.
Moscow's mayor has called a bomb attack on a restaurant a 'brutal terrorist act' but hasn't specified who might be responsible.
A Ukrainian intelligence official says Russia is deploying a North Korean unit with up to 120 ballistic missiles in its war against Ukraine.