The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall outside of Moscow on March 22 that killed at least 139 people has sent shockwaves through the country. For a country with such an overwhelming focus on security and steadily increasing militarization of society, the inability to prevent such a deadly incident was a stunning failure of Moscow’s law enforcement capabilities. Beyond the questions that arose about the delayed response to the attack, there is also the fact that the U.S. publicly warned Russia about an impending terrorist attack, which Russian President Vladimir Putin promptly dismissed as “W…
