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Thursday, 10 August, 2000, 15:30 GMT 16:30 UK
The blasts which shook Russia
A spate of bomb blasts in Russia has killed hundreds, posing one of the most serious challenges to the country's stability since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the culprits were never established, the authorities were quick to blame Chechens.
Moscow: 9 August 2000
A bomb rips through an underpass packed with hundreds of commuters and shoppers in central Moscow, killing eight people and injuring about 50, almost a year after the last spate of bombs.
Moscow fears more blasts
Volgodonsk: 16 September
Blast rocks Russian town (16 September)
Who is behind the bombing? (14 September)
BBC Russian Affairs Analyst Malcolm Haslett looks at the choices that face the Russian authorities as they tackle the most serious threat yet to post-Soviet Russia's stability.
Security clampdown in Russia (15 September)
Moscow: 13 September
A bomb destroys another apartment block in southern Moscow. The final death toll reaches 118. Pictures from a shocked city (13 September)
Yeltsin calls for calm (13 September)
Moscow plagued by terror (13 September)
Moscow: 9 September
More than 150 people are killed in two explosions five days apart in Moscow and Dagestan. The Moscow bomb destroyed a nine-storey apartment building in the south-east of the city, while in Dagestan a car-bomb was detonated outside army officers' apartments. Moscow's blast in pictures (9 September) The final death toll came in the Moscow apartment block came to 94.
Analysis: The likely suspects Dagestan: 31 August
Russia hit by new Islamic offensive (5 September)
Moscow: 31 August
Blast rocks Moscow (31 August)
A powerful explosion rips through a shopping centre in the centre of Moscow, injuring more than 40 people. Many of the victims were young people visiting the centre's restaurants and amusement arcade.
Media mystified by mall blast (1 September)
Note found at blast scene (1 September)
Moscow bomb suspect arrested (2 September)
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