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Lively and colorful, vigorous and buzzing, busy day and night, Pushkin Square is Moscow's Times Square. There is hardly a Muscovite who has never dived into the long underpass, colloquially known as the Pushka, that runs under the square, across Tverskaya Street and down to three main subway lines. So when a bomb went off in the cramped concrete maze last Tuesday at the height of rush hour, it did more than just tear the flesh of the 11 people who died and the 96 who were injured. It also charred the nation's hopes...
...still under way. But no one responsible for the Moscow bombings was ever caught. The latest attack may also go unsolved. Police arrested a couple of men shortly after the bombs went off but then quickly released them. There were all kinds of theories about who set the Pushka bomb, but opinion quickly coalesced around the idea of another Chechen attack. The Chechens denied any involvement, insisting that their targets are Russian soldiers, some 10,000 of whom they have killed or wounded in the past 11 months. But to many Russians, who have seen endless TV videos of their...
...eventually into the presidency of Russia. That chain of events has also provided rich ground for a whole crop of conspiracy theories: that the bombs were planted by ex-KGB goons trying to push Putin into power, for instance. Some Muscovites and many liberal Russians are worried that the Pushka killings will become a precursor to a political crackdown. "Moscow is the capital of a country at war," warned Alexander Musykantsky, Moscow city's information minister. "People should live accordingly...
...swanky Red air force pilots he saw about Moscow. His father was badgered into letting him enroll in Sebastopol's Kachinsky Flying School, where he was treated with groveling politeness and fragile care. He never stood guard duty, ate special meals, slept apart. He smoked the finest Pushka and Kazbek cigarettes. Flying came hard, but he never got a thumbs-down. A special plane and a special instructor were set aside for the "Red Czarevich." Finally, in the fall of 1941, Vasily won his wings...
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