Information provided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allowed Russian law-enforcement agencies to arrest the would-be attackers before they could carry out their plan, the Kremlin said in a statement posted on its Internet site.
The foiled attack was to have been carried out on Kazansky Cathedral, in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg, and other busy sites in the city,” the Kremlin said.
locations in the city where large numbers of people gather, the Kremlin statement said. The cathedral is a popular tourist site.
The Russian President thanked his American colleague for the information passed on.
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