2 Deadly Explosions in Moscow metro became the main theme in Runet. The blasts occurred during the morning rush hour in central Moscow. The first was at the Lubyanka metro station (7:50 am), the second came 40 minutes later at the Park Kultury station. Social media turns to be more quick and operative than traditional media. The tragedy in Moscow metro has become an example of TV sluggishness: “40 Tweets per second on the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro vs. only 4 TV newscasts in the morning” via @krassnova.

Shortly after the tragedy in blogs and social networks began to appear the first reports from users via twitter and LiveJournal. The main issue, which were discussed – how to help the victims (shortage of donated blood), horrible  behavior of Moscow taxi drivers (who took advantage of the situation and inflated the prices several times for those who had been unable to get out of the subway, but had yet to reach their destinations) .

Today in blogs,  photos from tragedy places, video from tragedy places, hashtags broadcasting the news in real time – #moscow and #metro29. Moreover, in twitter there was an hour of silence from 5 till 6 p.m. on March, 29.

Detailed description of what was going on in Moscow in English.