Both Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, and Rashid Nurgaliev, the Russian Interior Minister, reported the anti-terrorist operation to be short and successful. All the militants were killed, their bodies yet to be identified.

The terrorists killed three people during the attack, including two militiamen and one civilian, and injured another seventeen people.

There have been contradictory reports about the attack in Grozny. There was information, later denied, that one of the militants escaped with hostages. It was also falsely reported that the building was mined, and that one of the Parliament members was injured.

The whole area around the place of attack is being cleaned, and today the Chechen parliament resumes its normal working hours.

Victims of the attack and their families will be receiving compensation from the government.

The security measures throughout Chechnya and on the borders with other republics have been tightened.

Many terror attacks that have recently taken place in Russia were associated with international terrorist groups. Just a few months after the Moscow attacks, an explosion took place in the city of Pyatigorsk, with 30 people injured. Another major attack occurred in September, 2010, in Vladikavkaz, when a suicide bomber drove a car into the city’s central market, leaving 19 people dead and another 200 injured.

In addition, Russian security forces not long ago arrested Aidar Khabibullin, who was spreading extremist literature just outside Moscow. He is the leader of an international terror group based in Turkey.