LOCATION, LOCATION,
LOCATION, AND
SECURITY, SECURITY,
SECURITY
INTERIOR OF THE MOTHER RUSSIA
MEMORIAL TO THE
BATTLE OF STALINGRAD
VOLGOGRAD, RUSSIA
The world has had a few years to get used to the fact that Russia's first Winter Olympics was to be held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, better known for its beaches than its ice skating. It had also not gone unnoticed that Sochi was uncomfortably close to the restive North Caucasus region.
Just over a week ago, on December 29 and 30, suicide bombers struck not at Sochi but several hundred miles away at the presumably easier target of Volgograd, devastated in the pivotal World War II Battle of Stalingrad. Terror struck first a train station and then a bus, in the run-up and on the road to the Olympics.
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