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    Two small explosions damage stores in Russian city

    AP Worldstream
    Oct 04, 2004


    Two small explosions damaged stores overnight in the city of
    Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, regional police said Monday. No
    one was injured.

    The explosions went off about 30 minutes apart outside two Italian
    clothes shops located about two kilometers (one mile) from each other,
    said the press service of Yekaterinburg's regional Interior Ministry.

    Russia's NTV television broadcast footage of broken glass and damaged
    storefronts, and said the explosive devices contained about 200 grams
    (seven ounces) of TNT.

    The stores were both privately owned by different people in the city,
    about 1,500 kilometers (935 miles) east of Moscow, Ekho Moskvy radio
    said.

    Regional police said the explosions appeared to be linked to a dispute
    between rival criminal gangs made up of ethnic Russians and people
    from the ex-Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus
    mountains. But members of the Armenian Diaspora denied any involvement
    and called the explosion an attempt to whip up interethnic tension.

    Russian media said investigators were on the scene and that all
    possible motives were being considered.

    Criminal and commercial disputes in Russia have often led to bombings,
    arson attacks and even killings.
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