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Two suicide bombings in as many days have raised concerns that separatist militants have begun a terrorist campaign in Russia that could stretch into the Winter Olympics in February. Russian authorities and the International Olympic Committee insisted the site of the games, protected by layers of security, is completely safe. The attacks in Volgograd, only 400 miles (650 kilometers) away from the Olympic host city of Sochi, reflected the Kremlin's inability to uproot Islamist insurgents in the Caucasus who have vowed to derail the games, President Vladimir Putin's pet project. No one has claimed responsibility for Sunday's blast at the Volgograd railway station or Monday's bus explosion there, but they came only months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov threatened new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Olympics.
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