Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov urged not to jump to conclusions about the work of law enforcement agencies in connection with a wave of phone calls about the mining. His words on Friday, September 22, the correspondent “Tapes.ru”.
“We believe that until appropriate services conduct the necessary work, it would be incorrect to give any assessment,” Peskov said. So he answered the question about how the Kremlin relate to the inability of the intelligence to cope with the situation.
Earlier in the day, RIA Novosti citing a source in the emergency services of the capital announced the evacuation of visitors and staff of the nine Moscow district councils and one Prefecture.
21 September in Moscow after an anonymous call with a threat of a bomb threat from office were withdrawn, the employees of the company “Yandex”. This happened after the company was visited by the President of Russia. It was also reported that just this day due to not confirmed bomb threats in eight cities were evacuated, more than 15 thousand people.
A wave of anonymous calls about “mining” of various administrative and commercial buildings continues in Russia in the second week. Communications related to shopping centres, railway stations, universities, hotels, schools. In particular, the 18 September in Moscow was evacuated the shopping center “atrium”, “European” and “metropolis”. Only this time “mining” the country has suffered more than a thousand objects with mass stay of people evacuated about 400 thousand people. However, the threat of explosions has never been confirmed.