2003 Znamenskoye Suicide Bombing

Coordinates: 43°40′34″N 45°07′37″E / 43.676°N 45.127°E / 43.676; 45.127

Second Chechen War (guerrilla phase)

Insurgency since May 2000

Galashki
1st suicide bombings
2nd suicide bombings
Alkhan-Kala
Vedeno
1st Grozny crash
Tsotsin-Yurt
Shelkovskaya crash
2nd Grozny
Khankala crash
Grozny truck bomb
Znamenskoye suicide bombing
Nazran
1st Avtury
4th Grozny
Dagestan sieges
Borozdinovskaya
Makhachkala bombing
Nalchik
Gimry
2nd Avtury
Vladikavkaz crash
Border incident
Shatoy crash
Zhani-Vedeno

Major sabotage attacks in post-Soviet Russia

Bold indicates attacks resulting in over 50 deaths 1995: Budyonnovsk 1996: Kizlyar-Pervomayskoye 1999: Vladikavkaz Russian apartment bombings' 2002: Kaspiysk bombing Moscow crisis Grozny 2003: Znamenskoye bombing Tushino Stavropol bombing Red Square bombing 2004: Moscow Metro bombing 1 Grozny Dynamo stadium Moscow Metro bombing 2 Aircraft bombings Beslan crisis 2006: Cherkizovsky Market, Moscow 2008: Vladikavkaz 2009: Nazran Nevsky Express 2010: Moscow metro bombing 3 Kizlyar Vladikavkaz 2011: Domodedovo Airport bombing

Part of the First Chechen War Invasion of Dagestan (1999) Second Chechen War and North Caucasus Insurgency

The Znamenskoye Grozny suicide bombing happened on May 12, 2003, in Znamenskoye in Chechnya, when three rebel suicide bombers, including two women, drove a truck bomb into a local government administration and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) directorate complex, killing at least 59 people and injuring about 200, mostly civilians.

The complex contained the republican headquarters of the FSB. The mainstream wing of the rebels led by Aslan Maskhadov denied involvement and condemned the attack.

A Chechen warlord Khozh-Akhmed Dushayev was blamed for organizing the blast. No formal charges were ever brought and Dushayev was killed in Ingushetia in June 2003.