45,000 Evacuated Across Russia After Wave of Bomb Threats
- Red Square department store, malls, hotels cleared in Moscow
- Officials call coast-to-coast scale of hoaxes unprecedented
Kaliningrad, Russia on Aug. 27, 2017.
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Nearly 100,000 people have been evacuated from airports, schools and government buildings across Russia, including an iconic department store on Red Square, amid a wave of fake bomb threats that officials called unprecedented.