A powerful blast Sunday outside a downtown Moscow office of Russia’s Federal Security Service may have been the work of the same perpetrators who bombed a Moscow synagogue last May. Sources in the Federal Security Service, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said the bomb that injured three people and shattered dozens of windows was identical to the device used in the bombing of the Marina Roscha Synagogue. Security service officials also said that both bombs had been planted in a similar manner.
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