Man to serve 15 years in Russian colonel's death
A Chechen man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the killing of a disgraced Russian army colonel who kidnapped and strangled a teenage ...

Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance
Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to ...

Boston suspects' father postpones trip to US
The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Sunday that he has postponed a trip from Russia to the United States because of poor health. "I am ...

Boston suspects' father says he's returning to US
The father of the two Boston bombing suspects said Thursday that he is soon leaving Russia for the United States, to visit one son and lay the other ...

Boston bombing could prompt US, Russia cooperation
The Boston Marathon bombings could provide an opportunity for the U.S. and Russia to find some common ground for cooperation as authorities ...

From outsiders to bombing suspects in Boston
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought to embrace American lives after emigrating from Russia — joining a boxing club, winning a scholarship and even ...

Aunt: Boston bombings suspect struggled with Islam
The elder suspect in the Boston bombings regularly attended a mosque and spent time learning to read the Quran, but he struggled to fit in during a ...

Parents of Boston suspect describe his Russia trip
The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev insisted Sunday that he came to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with the ...
Czechs: we're not Chechens
A number of comments by Americans on social media mistaking the Czech Republic for the country of origin of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects— ...

Chechen identity hinges on fierce resistance
The Chechen people didn't choose the modern name of their capital. That came from the Russians, a name that encodes much of Chechnya's identity: ...

Russia's Chechnya has seen decades of war, terror
The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings have their ethnic roots in Chechnya, a part of the Caucasus Mountains that has spawned ...

Manhunt in Boston after bombing suspect is killed
Thousands of officers with rifles and armored vehicles swarmed the streets in and around Boston on Friday, hunting for a 19-year-old college student ...

Boston suspect's father says he's a 'true angel'
The father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing described his fugitive son as a smart and accomplished "angel" in an anguished interview in ...

Russia: Sochi security tight after Boston bombs
The naming of two Chechen brothers as the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing is reviving fears about security at the 2014 Winter Games in ...

US names Russians targeted for sanctions
The Treasury Department has announced sanctions against 18 Russians over human rights violations, but avoided some prominent officials whose inclusion ...

Fire engulfs unoccupied high-rise in Russia
Fire has engulfed an unoccupied 40-story apartment building under construction in Chechnya, a once war-torn republic in southern Russia.

Chechen soccer team fined for strongman's outburst
Russian soccer authorities sanctioned the Terek Grozny team Wednesday after its honorary president and biggest fan, Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, ...