They are taking revenge on us," said Zhirinovsky.Īndrei Soldatov, the founder of website that tracks the security services, said the case seemed utterly bizarre. "This is the work of professional subversive elements from Ukraine. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, pointed the finger at Ukrainians who are fighting a Moscow-backed separatist uprising - and, the West and Kiev say, Russian troops - in eastern Ukraine.
The gang calls itself "jaamat" (group in Arabic) and is on a mission to hunt down "infidels," said the government mouthpiece.Īccording to another popular version, the attackers are militants affiliated with Islamists who are using the roads around Moscow as a training ground to prepare to join their cause in Syria or elsewhere. Government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta, citing law enforcement sources, said the gang gunned people down "not for money." Kolokoltsev reported to Putin after law enforcement agencies reportedly caught several members of the gang, and the Russian strongman commended police for "solving" the crime.īut investigators and police have been unusually tight-lipped about the case, and the vast mystery shrouding the crimes and the hunt for the attackers has bred a wealth of eyebrow-raising theories. "I know you are working together with the security services, with the FSB. "Essentially, this crime is terrorist by nature," Putin told Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev late last week. In a sign of how seriously the crimes are being treated, the police have teamed up with the FSB security agency, the successor to the KGB, to tackle the murders and President Vladimir Putin has gotten personally involved. Among their victims were a policeman, a senior banker, and even a former dancer from a famous folk dancing troupe.
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