I am deeply angry and saddened by this event. Russia’s leaders must seize the initiative and press with their program of hunting down terrorists who are determined to destabilize Russia. Russia must also press both the West and the Muslim world and demand an end to the tacit and open support anti-Russian radical groups receive in the outside world. Russia must press ahead until terrorism is defeated.

arent CIA operatives and their minions good adepts at that?

Much as I distrust the CIA, I don't believe this is from them. The explosives were crude and the second one did not go off in time to demolish more of the train. I don't know if it was detonated by the police or not, but I think it went off after the rescue people arrived. If it had been planted by the CIA, I would guess that more of the cars would be a tangled mess. This is not to say that nobody in the USA government has tried to destabliize the Russian government. I did believe there were "shenanigans" against Russia last year, when I saw what appeared to be an attack on the ruble and the price of oil after the Georgians "unilaterally" (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) decided to attack South Ossetia, while at the same time a NATO war exercise in the Atlantic Ocean ended and the ships steamed toward the Persian Gulf. All of this was under the cover of the Chinese Olympics, which filled all the TV and newspaper stories at home. Also I wouldn't put it past the CIA to work with mercenaries to cause trouble around the Caspian Sea - "arms length" deals, of course. However, since Obama took over and pushed for "reset", the shadow plotters (and they are still here, burrowed deep into the bureaucracy) seem to have switched gears to a propaganda campaign. They have had to be a little more discreet under the new president. Plus, Congress has discovered it has a backbone and is investigating some of those torture flights from previous years. The CIA is probably busy talking to its lawyers right now. Sad to say, but I think this terrorism looks home grown. I'm willing to change my mind if something new is discovered, though.

Strangely enough, this terrorist attack comes on the day when the World sinks into the second phase of financial demise with Dubai defaulting on its debt of more than $60 billion with the biggest losers being private English & US bankers financing the country’s skyscrapers construction and sadly Russian people are being killed. This terrorist attack is masterminded somewhere in the West using exiled Caucuses extremists to do their dirty job with an aim to create hatred and intolerance between minority Muslim and majority Christian population and divide the country on ethnic lines. The World has seen this kind of ploy a decade ago in Yugoslavia and Serbia and that was when the West-USA & England were on their verge of economic collapse.

Agree, with all the comments , 'Also would like to see the FSB working on this matter and catch this bastards , and the people from Russia most be united in this menace of terrorism that is crumbling the world. My condolences to the families who suffered in this coward attack against the Russia Federation, and this bastards would not win this battle against the Russian government I' hope the FSB catch this animals a soon as possible.

ME Janssen, I think that the crucial point is not whether Mr. Obama supports terrorism against Russia. Of course, does not support it. The crucial point is degree to which western media underplays terrorism against Russia whilst overplaying Russia’s weaknesses both imaginary and real. For example, ordinary western public receive image of Russia as an oppressive nation that does not respect human rights. So that when heinous terrorist acts is committed against Russia, media in the West finds it hard to report these events by showing sympathy for the Russian people. Thus as long as the western media continue to report distorted view of Russia, the western reading public will not know the difference between Russia’s determined attempt to fight and end terrorism and radical groups using terrorism to destabilize the country. Russia’s political leadership should press western leaders and also oil rich Arab countries to help Russia's fight against terrorism.

My condolences to those who lost loved ones. I hope those perpetrated these horrible acts are caught and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Sarah: The US has only 5% of the world's population, but my general impression is that most foreign media report on the US's own domestic issues disproportionately relative to those of any other country. The US media in turn does an inadequate job of reporting the domestic situations in foreign countries, and as a result it seems as though everyone else is looking at the US through a magnifying glass while the US is basically very geographically ignorant. The USSR has an extremely poor image in the West, and the Russian defensive attitude therefore towards its 20th history, along with controversial moves such as banning NGOs, along with polls showing so many Russians don't care about democracy, and high profile assassinations like Litvenenko's and Chechnyan reporters, all make Russia look suspicious to West, especially since during the Bush years Russia typically surfaced in the news, in the US at least, only when it did something like the above or else was bickering with the US about our nosiness regarding Russia's internal affairs. Since Obama took office Russia's image has, I think, been improving because Medvedev's "Go Russia" article and speech were largely exactly the sort of things the West wanted to hear out of Russia, and cooperation on things like START and Iran are making it so stories about Russia are less about its supposed problems, or at least when they are it is about how Russia is working on solving them, and are more about how Russia is making a positive contribution to the world. Americans and Russians are, I am sure, still very suspicious of each other, but relations and opinions are improving. I think in particular that as Russia shapes up it will be harder for American conservatives to demonize it as they have been prone to.