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Russian Teenager Detained After Posting Neo-Nazi Threats on TikTok, Targeting Moscow Museum

The Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow. Photo Ian Walton/Getty Images

The US embassy in Moscow put a warning on its website Saturday, alerting US citizens of “a credible threat of a mass casualty event” at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow. The palace museum and large park reserve are 10 miles from the Kremlin.

Russia ’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it followed the warning from US officials and detained a teenage boy on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, reports Bloomberg .

The Russian state-run news agency Tass reported that the teenager had been posting videos on TikTok holding an automatic weapon while wearing tactical gear and a balaclava.…