Moscow boosts security after Volgograd bombs
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- Why Volgograd?
- Regional terrorist cell
- Communications hub
- Displacement from Sochi
- Response to counter-insurgency operations
- Why now?
- Winter Olympics
- Internal pressures within Caucasus Emirate
- Operational pressures
- Reactions
- Short-term crackdowns
- Increased resources
- Social resilience
- No substantive policy change needed
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