Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence.
More than a hundred people died and scores more were wounded on Friday night in a terrorist attack on a concert hall near Moscow — the deadliest such attack in Russia in decades.
Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The Times, discusses the uncomfortable question the assault raises for Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin: Has his focus on the war in Ukraine left his country more vulnerable to other threats?
Guest: Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• In Russia, fingers point anywhere but at ISIS • for the concert hall attack. • The attack shatters Mr. Putin’s security promise • to Russians.
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