Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing
| Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of Terrorism in Russia Left-wing terrorism | |
 The perpetrator entering the FSB precinct before the bombing | |
| Location | Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia |
| Coordinates | 64°32′09″N 40°31′12″E / 64.5359°N 40.5201°E |
| Date | 31 October 2018 8:52 AM[1] (Moscow Time) |
| Target | Federal Security Service |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
| Weapons | acetone peroxide powered Improvised explosive device |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 3 |
| Perpetrators | Mikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky[2] |
| Motive | Anarcho-communist terrorism |
The Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing was a suicide bombing that occurred in Arkhangelsk, Russia. On the morning of 31 October 2018, Mikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky, a 17-year old tekhnikum student entered the local office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and pulled a manually controlled Improvised explosive device from under his clothes and detonated it.[3] He died on the spot and the explosion injured three local FSB officers.[4]
Motive
Minutes before the explosion, a post was submitted to an anarcho-communist themed online chat on Telegram by a user under the alias "Sergey Nechayev" who used the logo of the Red Army Faction as his avatar, stating he was going to bomb the Arkhangelsk FSB office in retaliation against the torture of Russian anarchists and anti-fascists.[5][6] Mikhail was reported as saying in the chat room, "I'm waiting until I'm 18 years old so I'm responsible for my actions, not my parents. I don't know what you all are waiting for."
See also
References
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