SUMMARY

Gazotan Murdash claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a packed metro carriage in Moscow in February 2004. According to the statement of the group, the attack was a revenge for attacks on civilians by Russian soldiers in the Chechen capital Grozny exactly four years before.

Gazotan Murdash first became active as a one-sided actor in UCDP data in 2004, when the one-sided violence resulted in over 25 civilian deaths. The threshold was reached in early February due to a suicide bombing in Moscow's metro.