Russian officials say a bomb has killed at least two people in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Daghestan.
A jury at the Moscow City Court has found Yusup Temerkhanov, an ethnic Chechen, guilty of the murder of former Russian Army Colonel Yury Budanov.
The Boston Marathon bombings have served to corroborate many observers’ previously unsubstantiated hunch that one reason for the Russian security services’ inability to contain the North Caucasus insurgency is that the various agencies responsible fail to share information among themselves.
Akhmed Bilalov, a former deputy head of Russia’s Olympic Committee, says he has been poisoned with mercury. Bilalov’s claim comes just weeks after he was fired by President Vladimir Putin over huge cost overruns in the construction of a ski jump for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The allegations add to the long list of controversies surrounding the upcoming Sochi Olympics.
A preliminary court hearing has begun in Russia's North Caucasus for one of the top lieutenants to the Islamic insurgency's leader there, Doku Umarov.
Investigations are continuing into the Boston Marathon bombings.
Russia’s says the leader of a militant group in the North Caucasus republic of Daghestan has been killed in an overnight gunbattle with police.
Americans are struggling to make sense of what occurred in Boston on April 15 and how two young ethnic Chechen immigrants might have become motivated to kill. The result has been an uptick in Islamophobic rhetoric from some corners, but gestures of tolerance from others.
A U.S. Congressional panel has urged greater security cooperation between Washington and Moscow in the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon attack.
It's been a week since police suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev following a gunbattle that led to the death of his older brother and fellow suspect, Tamerlan. Evidence suggests the ethnic Chechen immigrants may have been independent radicals motivated by resentment of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved from the hospital where he was recovering from injuries to a prison medical facility in Fort Devens, Massachusetts.
Anzor Tsarnaev and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the parents of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are continuing to maintain their sons' innocence. On April 25, they held an emotional news conference in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's republic of Daghestan. (Reuters)
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