For Tsarnaev Brothers, Family Model Broke Down
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – April 23, 2013) As more details surfaced Monday regarding the complex family history of the Tsarnaev brothers, suspected of detonating deadly...
View ArticleThe Boston Marathon Attack, the North Caucasus, and U.S.-Russian Relations
(Center for American Progress – Cory Welt – April 22, 2013) Cory Welt is an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for American Progress and associate director of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian...
View ArticleDaghestan a Failed State and Must Be ‘Built Anew,’ Abdulatipov Says
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, April 24, 2013 – windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/04/window-on-eurasia-daghestan-failed.html) The government of Daghestan “has been completely destroyed...
View ArticleDaghestani Insurgency Denies Any Role In Boston Bombings
(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...
View ArticleReassessing the Caucasus after Boston explosion
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Sergei Markedonov, special to RBTH – April 24, 2013) The bombing during the Boston Marathon brought Chechnya back to the attention of the West, but the public,...
View ArticleTsarnaev did not contact Islamic radicals while visiting Dagestan in 2012 –...
(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...
View ArticleBoston Bombers Reflect Specific Experiences of Some North Caucasians in...
(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...
View ArticleTestimony on Russian-American Relations on the Question of Chechnya
(Andranik Migranyan testimony – House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade – April 26, 2013 –...
View ArticleRussian Security Services Offer Surprising Revelations About Boston Bombings
(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...
View ArticleTsarnaev Case Highlights Communication Breakdown Between Daghestani Agencies
(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...
View ArticleBoston Bomb Trail Leads Into Heart of Putin’s Own War on Terror
(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...
View Articlere: Jackson Diehl on Extremists; from: John Evans
Subject: Jackson Diehl on Extremists From: John Evans <evansinusa@aol.com> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 Jackson Diehl’s attempt to conflate the Chechen rebels with the Syrian rebels (“Extremists of...
View ArticleWhy Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Outside of Chechen Mentality
(Eurasia Daily Monitor: Volume 10, Issue 83 – Mairbek Vatchagaev – Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – May 2, 2013) Why did Tamerlan Tsarnaev – one of the alleged April 15 Boston Marathon bombers...
View ArticleTsarnaevs’ Story Reveals Web of Ethnic Ties and Tensions in CIS
(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...
View ArticleRadicalization of Tsarnaev Brothers Likely Did Not Occur in Chechnya
(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...
View ArticleExperts in Russia Say Moscow Should Heed Lessons from Wars in Syria, Libya...
(Eurasia Daily Monitor: Volume 10, Issue 101 – Valery Dzutsev – Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – May 29, 2013) On April 26, the authoritative Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta hosted a...
View ArticleArrest of Makhachkala Mayor Seen as Sign of Changing Tide
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – June 4, 2013) As the fallout from the arrest of the leader of Dagestan’s capital continued on Monday, experts agreed that the event would likely...
View ArticleRussia Wants Tourism, Not Terrorism, for Embattled Caucasus
(Voice of America – James Brooke – June 6, 2013) A foreign correspondent who has reported from five continents, Brooke, known universally as Jim, is the Voice of America bureau chief for Russia and...
View ArticleOne Russian in Eight No Longer Views Chechnya as Part of Russia, Poll Finds
(Window on Eurasia – Paul Goble – Staunton, July 1, 2013) Twelve percent of Russians say Chechnya is already independent, 24 percent say they would welcome that outcome, and 27 percent more suggest...
View ArticlePoll Shows Half Of Russians Don’t Oppose Chechen Split
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Claire Bigg – July 2, 2013) Every other Russian citizen would not be opposed to Chechnya’s secession from Russia, according to a new poll by the Levada Center, Russia’s top...
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