On March 22, there was a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on the Moscow beltway. This is an elegant shopping center with designer boutiques, a concert hall, hotel and exhibition hall, nicknamed Dubai for its luxury, owned by a Russian-Azeri oligarch.

Four gunmen walked in the front door and immediately started shooting passersby with machine guns, then proceeded to the concert hall, killing people and throwing smoke bombs that ignited the building. One-hundred, thirty-seven people were killed, most in a fire made worse by locked doors and lack of sprinklers.

Watching it unfold in real time with discovery of new information and running commentary tells us a lot about the state of Russia today.

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