Terrorists from Russia"s volatile North...
the neighboring republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan.The French and the German foreign ministries have condemned the attacks.
"We deplore these cowardly attacks in the most resolute manner," a statement by the German Foreign Ministry said. "Nothing can justify these vicious acts."
"France resolutely denounces these terrorist acts and assures Russia in its full support," the French statement read.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Russia"s neighbor "shared" its loss.
If terrorism is confirmed as the cause of the blasts, this will be the first major terrorist incident in the Russian capital since the autumn of 2004, when ten people were killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a north Moscow metro station.
The explosion was part of a series of terrorist attacks that also saw 90 people die in two plane bombings and the deaths of over 300 people, many of them children, when Chechen terrorists seized a school in Beslan.