MOSCOW. Feb 5 (Interfax) - The wave of false bomb threats continued in Moscow on February 4, as the threats were received by over 1,500 sites, an informed source told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Anonymous bomb threats were received by more than 30 district courts, over 150 education establishments, over a dozen healthcare facilities, and all 232 stations of the city metro yesterday," the source said.
The threats were also received by the Christ the Savior Cathedral, more than 75 swimming pools, over 50 shopping malls, stores of Russia's biggest food retailer, and some other sites, he said.
"Evacuation was minimal and involved about 8,000 people. None of the bomb threats proved real," the source said.
In his words, threats were emailed to Moscow courts via several mail services, including mail.ru.
The wave of bomb threats started in Moscow on November 28, 2019, and led to the evacuation of 1.6 million people by now, another source told Interfax earlier.
In his words, the scale of evacuations drastically declined in the city in the second half of January.
"Heads of institutions receiving the bomb threats, among them school and kindergarten principals, have stopped paying attention to the daily threats, and law enforcers examine facilities without evacuating anyone in 80-90% of all cases," the source said.
The Federal Security Service said in late January that access to the Dutch mail service Startmail.com and the Swiss mail service Protonmail.com was blocked because they had been used to mail false bomb threats.