Russian authorities detained a 26-year-old native of St. Petersburg after a bomb killed a prominent military blogger in a café on Sunday. Russian officials are accusing Ukraine and Russian opposition activists for the attack. But details about the bombing, its perpetrators and a possible motive remain murky, as Michael Weiss, a senior correspondent at Yahoo News, tells The World’s Marco Werman.
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