Russian apartment bombings/Temp

Infobox terrorist attack
title=Russian apartment bombings


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location=Russia
(Buynaksk-Moscow-Volgodonsk)
target=Low-income apartment buildings
date=September 4-16, 1999
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type=Time bombings
fatalities=Nearly 300
injuries=More than 1,000
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The Russian apartment bombings were a series of explosions that hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999, killing nearly 300 people and spreading a wave of fear across the country. They were quickly blamed by the Russian government on Chechen separatists and together with the Islamist invasion of Daghestan that took place in August 1999 were used as a pretext for the military invasion of the breakaway Chechen Republic, which started on October 1 and came to be known as the Second Chechen War. The Chechen militants and secessionist authorities, however, have denied their involvement in the bombing campaign.