The North Caucasus insurgency, whose possible links with last week’s Boston Marathon bombing suspects are still being investigated, is the product of a 19-year sequence of miscalculations by the Russian leadership in its increasingly desperate efforts to retain control of the North Caucasus. What is now a pan-regional movement that operates not
Russia’s North Caucasus Militants: A Primer
In this Jan. 14, 1995 file photo a Chechen rebel fighter runs past a burning building in the center of Grozny, Chechnya, Russia. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing have been identified to The Associated Press as coming from a Russian region near Chechnya. In the past, insurgents from Chechnya and neighboring restive provinces […]