Andrew Roth and David Filipov

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When Innocent Man’s Picture Is Circulated as Russian Bombing Suspect’s, It Upends His Life

MOSCOW — For several hours, the face of the St. Petersburg suicide bomber was pretty much the one many Russians expected it to be: a young man with a long, thick beard, wearing a black overcoat and a traditional Muslim prayer cap. TV news stations and Russian online sites broadcast grainy security f

Glimpses of the St. Petersburg Bombing Victims

St. Petersburg – He was a 22-year-old from the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. She was a 21-year-old from Azerbaijan. They were part of the modern-day fabric of Russia’s melancholy old imperial city. He was the bomber, police say. She was one of his 14 victims, most of them in their 20s