Deadly terrorist attacks against Russia

Apr 3, 2017: Bomb blast on St Petersburg metro kills 14 people.Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen Akbarzhon Jalilov (above) namedas prime suspect

Oct 2015: So-called Islamic State bombs Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board

Dec 2013: Two suicide bombings target rail station and bus in city of Volgograd, killing 34 people

Jan 2011: Bomb attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport kills 37 people. Caucasus Emirate group led by Chechen warlord Doku Umarov claims responsibility

Mar 2010: Umarov’s group claims responsibility for bomb blasts on Moscow metro which kill 40 people

Nov 2009: Bomb attack on high-speed railway linking St Petersburg and Moscow kills at least 26 people

Sep 2004: Over 300 hostages die, half of them children, when Russian forces storm Beslan school seized by heavily-armed militants demanding Chechen independence

Aug 2004: Two Tupolev airliners blown up almost simultaneously oversouthern Russia, killing 90 people

Feb 2004: Chechen separatists blamed for Moscow metro bombing which kills at least 39 people

Oct 2002: Chechen militants seize crowded Moscow theatre in hostage crisis which leaves 130 people dead – most of them poisonedby gas used to subdue Chechensduring storming of building

Source: Wire agencies

Pictures: AP, Russian state TV