The blasts happened within 20 minutes of each other.

The Russian police have stepped up security measures across the country following two blasts in the Moscow Metro on Monday, March 29. The Metro blasts killed 39 people and injured 95, according to the latest updates.

At a government session on Wednesday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he does not rule out the idea that the terror acts in the Moscow Metro and the city of Kizlyar are related.

“I do not exclude that the same bandits are behind both acts,” he said.

Aleksey Mukhin, the head of the Political Information Center in Moscow, says the battle with insurgents in the North Caucasus is on the rise and spreading.

“In recent years, Dagestan has been in the spotlight in terms of suicide attacks much more often than Chechnya. This is due to the fact that Chechnya has built a framework of authorities that closely control certain segments of society. The situation in Dagestan is far more complicated due to its multi-ethnic population. The recent change of power there triggered great tension among clans, and criminals are making maximum use of that situation, just like they used to do in Chechnya.”

Meanwhile the Interior Ministry of Dagestan has announced the name of one of the suicide bombers in Kizlyar; it was committed by a local resident called Daud Jabrailov.

The Republic of Chechnya has offered its help to Dagestan in its fight against terror and militants.

“We are ready to provide any help, and we can wipe out this evil only by uniting our efforts,” Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov told his Dagestani counterpart.

The attack in Kizlyar and Monday’s explosions in the Moscow Metro is clearly a sign of an upsurge of terrorist activity, though it is not clear what exactly is going on, shared Tim Wall, the Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow News.

The security forces were aware of the threat to Moscow’s transport system and were close to catching the people who intended to carry out the attacks but failed because “how do you protect a capital with 15 million people and over 180 metro stations – it’s virtually impossible.”

There are two things that could have reduced Islamic terrorism internationally, believes Wall, and they are the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Iraq and from Afghanistan.

Wall noted that if those two things would happen “we would see a general lessening of international tensions between radical Muslims and the rest of the world."

“My first conclusion would be that those two events were prepared to place some pressure on the federal authorities,” political analyst Aleksandr Nagorny told RT. “One of the terrorists’ motives is to push federal authorities into harsh actions. But Medvedev and Putin are more experienced than that. They understand that this should be a kind of secret operation, rather than sending new troops into Dagestan or Ingushetia.”

Ekaterina Kuznetsova, a political scientist from the Moscow-based Center for Post-Industrial Studies, says we have to dig deep into the reasons for these acts of terror.