Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has banned gatherings in the Russian capital after a high-profile gun attack in the nearby region Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has canceled all large-scale events in the Russian capital after a shooting at Crocus City Hall, one of the biggest music venues just outside of the city.
Crocus City Hall, where a major terrorist attack took place on Friday night, is a complex just outside of Moscow’s city limits, in the urban settlement of Krasnogorsk. It opened in October 2009, and was named after Muslim Magomayev (1942-2008), a legendary Soviet singer born in present-day Azerbaijan.