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The investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee in Volgograd Region continue investigating a criminal case over a terrorist attack committed in Volgograd on 21 October 2013. The investigators are finding out all the circumstances of this audacious crime and are looking for the people involved in the crime.

At present the investigators have reasons to believe that the Asiyalova’s civil husband, 21-year-old Dmitry Sokolov, who is missing, is involved in the organization of the crime. His parents from Moscow Region reported him missing to law enforcement bodies in summer 2012. They told that their son had gone to a mosque, but never came back. Since them they have not heard about him. According to investigators’ information, Sokolov met Asiyalova about three years ago. They were united by a common interest to radical Islam.

Asiyalova was a Dagestani national, but for the last few years she lived in Moscow and visited her homeland regularly. One of her last places of work was a commercial company in Moscow.

The investigators have restored almost every minute of her last day. The investigating and search information and the results of investigating operations show that Asiyalova, wearing a hijab arrived in Volgograd and walked round crowded streets in Dzerzhinsky and Sovetsky districts, including near the Akvarel shopping mall – it is there, where she got on the bust No 29, in which later blew herself up.

The investigators are addressing to all, who have any information on Asiyalova and her husband. If you have information on Asiyalova and Sokolov, including possible places there might have been, worked, transport means they might have used, we are asking to report it in the regional directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee on the phones: (8442) 24-27-00, 24-27-11, or in the Main Office of the Russia’s Interior Ministry in Volgograd Region: (8442) 93-01-11, 30-43-45, 02. The Russia’s Investigative Committee guarantee confidentiality and state witness protection if necessary.

Head of Media Relations                                                                                                    V.I. Markin