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Russian officials reject US allegations over Boston bombing suspect case

April 13, 2014 JRL Russia List Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Boston Bombings Suspects File Photo Adapted from FBI Image

(RIA Novosti – April 10, 2014) The allegations that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) declined to provide its American counterparts with comprehensive information about Tamerlan Tsarnayev, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, is another manifestation of “anti-Russian hysteria”, Igor Korotchenko, the editor in chief of the Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence) magazine and a member of the public council […]

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Research report on the Boston Marathon attack

June 25, 2013 JRL Russia List Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

From: “Hahn, Gordon M.” <ghahn@miis.edu> Subject: Research report on the Boston Marathon attack Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 ANNOUNCEMENT A special 25-page research report on the Boston Marathon attack: ‘The Caucasus Emirate Comes to America: The Boston Marathon Attack’ will soon be available. For a copy please send an email request to gordon-hahn@sbcglobal.net. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What I have been warning […]

FSB cooperates with FBI, CIA in Boston terror attack investigation – Bortnikov

June 7, 2013 JRL Russia List Spies, Spy Allegations, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

File Photo of Boston Bombings Aftermath with Ambulance and Security Personnel

(Interfax – KAZAN, June 6, 2013) The Federal Security Service is cooperating with the U.S. security services in the investigation of the Boston terror attack, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said. “We are cooperating very actively with our FBI and CIA colleagues, responding to their requests and assisting in the arrangement of necessary procedures on the Russian territory,” he said on […]

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Russians to Get Access to FBI Data

May 27, 2013 JRL Russia List Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, Spies, Spy Allegations, Sports, Olympics, World Cup, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – May 27, 2013) After the Boston bombings last month and ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi next February, U.S. authorities are expanding their work with the Interior Ministry by granting the Russians access to some FBI information. The development, which came during a visit by Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev to the […]

Radicalization of Tsarnaev Brothers Likely Did Not Occur in Chechnya

May 10, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Spies, Spy Allegations, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Eurasia Daily Monitor – Volume 10, Issue 88 – Mairbek Vatchagaev – Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – May 9, 2013) The role of the brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston bombings is assessed differently on either side of the Atlantic. In the United States, few doubt they are terrorists and that the youngest son, Dzhokhar, who remains alive, […]

Tsarnaevs’ Story Reveals Web of Ethnic Ties and Tensions in CIS

May 8, 2013 JRL Russia List Armenia, Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – May 8, 2013) When the parents of “Misha,” the enigmatic Ukrainian-Armenian convert to Islam who allegedly helped radicalize Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, moved to the United States in the 1990s, they likely could not have imagined that their son would eventually be accused of coaching a Muslim terrorist. Yury Allakhverdov, a […]

Boston Bomb Trail Leads Into Heart of Putin’s Own War on Terror

May 2, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Ilya Arkhipov & Henry Meyer – May 1, 2013) Six blocks from the Caspian Sea, on Kotrova Street in central Makhachkala, sits a mosque being watched by undercover Russian agents charged with preventing acts of terror. As worshipers spill out into the streets, American investigators are watching now, too, as they try to reconstruct the events […]

Tsarnaev Case Highlights Communication Breakdown Between Daghestani Agencies

April 30, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Spies, Spy Allegations, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Liz Fuller – April 30, 2013) 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. In this particular case, Daghestan’s Center for the Struggle Against […]

Russian Security Services Offer Surprising Revelations About Boston Bombings

April 30, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Spies, Spy Allegations, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Eurasia Daily Monitor: Volume 10, Issue 80 – Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – Valery Dzutsev – April 29, 2013) On April 27, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an article on the dead Boston bomber suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, based on information it received from the Russian security services. It cited officers of the Dagestani Center for Combating Extremism who said […]

The Fading Line Between Domestic and External Threats

April 29, 2013 JRL Russia List Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(RIA Novosti – Fyodor Lukyanov – April 26, 2013) Fyodor Lukyanov is Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs journal, an authoritative source of expertise on Russian foreign policy and global developments – eng.globalaffairs.ru The case of two ethnic Chechens suspected of planting bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last Monday has perplexed many analysts. Since the […]

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Boston Bombers Reflect Specific Experiences of Some North Caucasians in Soviet and Post-Soviet Times, Moscow Analyst Says

April 29, 2013 JRL Russia List Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, History, Soviet Union, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, April 29, 2013) The two brothers who carried out the horrific Boston bombing are not simply Muslims who were inspired by radical websites or Chechens who were continuing their struggle against Moscow by other means, as many in both Russia and the West have insisted, according to a Moscow analyst. Instead, Konstantin […]

Tsarnaev did not contact Islamic radicals while visiting Dagestan in 2012 – official

April 26, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(Interfax- Moscow/Makhachkala, April 24, 2013) Dagestani Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov has denied allegations that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two men suspected of committing bomb attacks at the Boston Marathon, started practicing radical Islam during his stay in Dagestan in 2012. “According to our information, Tamerlan Tsarnaev did come to Dagestan in 2012 in order to have his Russian passport […]

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Boston Suspects’ Russian Parents to Visit US

April 24, 2013 JRL Russia List Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(RIA Novosti – MAKHACHKALA, April 24, 2013) The Russian parents of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings have agreed to visit the United States to assist in the ongoing investigation into the crime, a police source said on Wednesday. A team from the US Embassy in Moscow has arrived in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan to speak […]

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Daghestani Insurgency Denies Any Role In Boston Bombings

April 24, 2013 JRL Russia List Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Liz Fuller – April 22, 2013) The Daghestani wing of the North Caucasus insurgency has formally denied any role in the Boston Marathon bombings. In a brief statement posted on April 21 on the website vDagestan.com, its leaders stress that their primary enemy is Russia and they “are not engaged in military hostilities with the United […]

The motivation of the Boston Bomber: The ethnic background of the Tsarnaev family must provide some clues to mass murder.

April 23, 2013 JRL Russia List Central Asia, Chechnya, Dagestan, North Caucasus, Race, Ethnic, Extremism, Xenophobia, Terrorism, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

(opendemocacy.net – Susan Richards – April 23, 2013) Susan Richards is a non-executive director and founder of openDemocracy. She has produced a number of feature films and written a prize-winning book, Epics of Everyday Life, about the lives of ordinary Russians in the transition from communism. Lost & Found in Russia, Encounters in the Deep Heartland, which covers the period […]