Linking metro blast to Syria policy 'cynical, cowardly': Lavrov Kyrgyz foreign minister Abdyldaev Erlan Bekeshovich visits Moscow, as he confirms that the suicide bomber behind the St Petersburg metro blast was "of Kyrgyz origin" but says there is no confirmed link to the Islamic State group. His Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov slams assertions that the attack was retribution for Russian intervention in Syria as "cynical and cowardly". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES