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Fire bombs thrown at Russian embassy in Minsk

Jorge Benitez | August 31, 2010
One of the thrown bottles crashed through the window of a Mazda 3 embassy car and destroyed its interior.

From Reuters:  An unknown assailant threw two fire bombs at the Russian embassy in Minsk late on Monday, in an attack that hurt nobody but destroyed an embassy car, a Belarussian Emergencies Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

Vitaly Novitsky said the motive for the attack and the identity of the perpetrator were unknown.

Belarussian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Savinykh condemned the attack as a hooligan stunt aimed at hurting Belarusian-Russian relations, the Belapan news agency reported. ...

Relations between traditional allies Russia and Belarus have soured over recent months as Minsk struggles to reduce its dependence on Moscow.  (photo: Russia Today)

 

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 (Graphics: Deutsche Welle and Reuters)

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