FBI investigates exiled Chechen militant in connection with Boston bombing

A former Chechen militant who moved to the United States in 2004 admitted this week to meeting with accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev only weeks before the grizzly terrorist attack.

May 17, 2013 16:44

Moscow perplexed by UK ‘terror warning’ for visiting Russia

Russia is bewildered by a British Foreign Office warning against its citizens visiting the Russian North Caucus republics, including Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, due to a “high threat from terrorism”.

May 06, 2013 17:38

Tsarnaev support leaflets spring up in Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, stir controversy

As the probe into the Boston Marathon bombing continues, leaflets voicing support for the attack's surviving suspect have appeared in the capital of Russia’s Republic of Chechnya, in Kyrgyzstan, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born, and in Kazakhstan.

May 03, 2013 18:18

Putin on Boston bombings: World faces terrorists never referred to as such by West

The deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon lends credence to Russia’s position that terrorism is a shared global threat that must never be exploited for political gain, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

April 25, 2013 09:08

Hear no evil see no evil: Boston awakens sleeping US to Chechen danger

It took nearly two decades and an attack in the shape of the Boston bombings for many Americans to discover that Chechen militants – those, who are attacking innocent civilians, can be something other than “rebels” or “freedom fighters”.

April 22, 2013 14:05

From freedom fighters to terrorists: Identity of Boston bombers shifts US attitudes to Chechnya

The revelation that the two brothers suspected to be behind the Boston Marathon attack are ethnic Chechens has led the US establishment to perform a rapid volte-face towards the previously sympathetically-viewed region and cause.

April 19, 2013 21:48