This Friday, armed men murdered dozens of people at a Moscow concert hall and set the venue on fire with gasoline.<\/p>\n
Ukraine denies any relationship and ISIS claims responsibility for the attack<\/big><\/p>\n Ukraine has officially denied any connection with these events<\/a<, through Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak. Last night, the ISIS terrorists claimed responsibility for the attack<\/a>. United States has indicated<\/a> that it has intelligence information that confirms the authorship of that attack by ISIS<\/strong>, information that had already been published last night by media outlets around the world. world, with exceptions.<\/p>\n Russian state media hides ISIS responsibility<\/big><\/p>\n Russian state propaganda media RIA Novosti<\/a>, Russia Today (RT)<\/a>, Sputnik News<\/a> and Tass<\/a> have hidden the responsibility of ISIS<\/strong>. This morning, while the news was going around the world, those media controlled by the Kremlin hid from the Russians the claim of the attack by that Islamist terrorist group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On Twitter, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, issued the slogan<\/a>: \"The thing about ISIS is false\"<\/em> and added: \"Forbidden anywhere and everywhere\"<\/em>. That is to say, the regime prohibits speaking about the authorship of ISIS<\/strong> and whoever dares to publish it must face the consequences: let us remember that in Russia there is no freedom of the press and it is the Kremlin that dictates what What should be said and what not.<\/strong><\/p>\n The US warned Russia of the risk of terrorist attacks<\/big><\/p>\n In this case, Russia not only withheld information from its citizens, but also irresponsibly denied the threat<\/strong>. Last night, Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, noted<\/a>: \"Earlier this month, the U.S. government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow<\/strong> \u2013 potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts \u2013 which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia.\"<\/em> Watson added: \"The U.S. government also shared this information with Russian authorities<\/strong> in accordance with its longstanding \u2018duty to warn\u2019 policy.\"<\/em><\/p>\n This information was no secret: On March 7, the US Embassy in Russia published an alert on its website<\/a> with this text: \"The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow<\/strong>, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.\"<\/em> In that same advisory, the Embassy asked its Citizens avoid crowds.<\/strong> This information was published on Twitter by the State Department of USA<\/a> and was spread by the media<\/a>.<\/p>\n Putin disqualified the US warning and did not take any precautions<\/big><\/p>\n The Kremlin cannot claim ignorance about this<\/strong>, unless its intelligence services do not read the Western media or the warnings that come to them from the US. In fact, on March 19, Putin simply disqualified these warnings about a possible attack in Moscow<\/a>. According to the official Russian Tass agency, Putin referred to \"the recent provocative statements by various Western official structures about the possibility of terrorist attacks in Russia,\"<\/em>, stating: \"All this is It seems like absolute blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n After the warnings received, the Kremlin should have reinforced security at large events but it did not do so<\/strong>. It preferred to simply ignore the warnings issued by the US. One may wonder how we should characterize the attitude of the Russian dictator: negligence or premeditation?<\/strong> Last night, the Russian opposition media based in Latvia Meduza.io noted that Russian television broadcast a fake video attributing the attack to Ukraine<\/a>. This same media outlet pointed out that the pro-government Russian newspaper Kommersant accused the Russian Volunteer Corps, a paramilitary unit based in Ukraine. That Corps has denied any involvement in the attack.<\/a><\/p>\n The role of the Kremlin in the terrorist attack<\/big><\/p>\n What we are seeing should not surprise anyone. The Kremlin has a long experience of lying and hiding the truth<\/strong> to keep Russia's citizens immersed in a political fiction in which the dictator Putin is a role model and Western democracies are the devil. Last night it had already become clear the possibility that Russia would blame Ukraine for this attack<\/strong> and use that false accusation to justify its criminal aggression against the Ukrainian people and a new mobilization of Russian citizens to send more cannon fodder in front. In this sense, it is worth starting to wonder what part the Kremlin itself may have in what happened.<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukrainian intelligence points to Russian special services<\/big><\/p>\n
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