Yet the glaring failure of Putin's security state to prevent the gruesome assault-despite the US warning of March 7 that a strike on a concert hall could be imminent-may endanger the Russian government's social contract with its people.
Yet Russian officials and state media have made little reference to ISIS's claim. Instead, both Russian government officials and the FSB security service have repeatedly claimed that the assailants were intercepted while traveling to Ukraine.
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