BackChannels doesn’t know which way to go with the latest reports of the bombing of a subway car in St. Petersburg — cynical or sincere?
False flag (remember the “Moscow Apartment Bombings“) or authentic independent action by an enemy of the state?
Islamic terrorists or domestic dissenters?
For catching up:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/03/europe/st-petersburg-russia-explosion/index.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/03/saintpetersburg-bombing-casualties-explosion-metro-train/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/03/everything-know-explosion-st-petersburg/
BackChannels may experiment here with watch-write updating on this post.
This is a complicated attack made more so by the foreknowledge that the Russian State, if true to form, will frame it for the public and neither the public nor the sincere among police may have access or authority in the investigation launched.
In the west, the public would trust involved security services to get to the truth and to tell the truth. In Russia, one may expect absolute authority to say what it may and for the public to nod agreeably or mumble away in political impotence.
(more to come)
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