Moscow restaurant blast kills three; woman may have unknowingly carried device

On a Saturday afternoon in central Moscow, a homemade bomb tore through the entrance of the Balzi Rossi restaurant, killing three people and wounding twenty-one others in an act of violence that raises enduring questions about culpability, deception, and the fragility of ordinary life in public spaces. Russian investigators believe the device was detonated remotely, and that the woman who carried it — and died in the blast — may have done so without knowing what she held. In the long human story of violence visited upon the unsuspecting, this moment stands as a reminder that the distance betwe