More details continue to emerge about the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Russia caught Boston bomb suspect on wiretap
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Russian police arrest dozens of protesters in Red Square, Moscow, on Saturday as they take part in an anit-Putin demonstration
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Washington Post MAKHACHKALA, Russia — 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 really sick,” Anzor Tsarnaev, 46, told The Associated Press. He said his blood ... Boston suspects' father postpones trip to USFox News all 16 news articles » |
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Akhmed Bilalov, who fled Russia after Vladimr Putin blamed him for cost overruns, says he has raised mercury levels in his blood
A former Olympic official who fled Russia after President Vladimir Putin criticised him for delays and cost overrunsbefore the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi claims he has been poisoned.
Akhmed Bilalov, fired as deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee in February, said on Saturday that doctors had discovered elevated mercury levels in his blood. He is receiving treatment in Germany.
"They have found elevated levels of mercury in my body," Bilalov told the Interfax news agency, confirming Russian press reports. "I didn't want to announce this before, but now that the press has found out, I'm forced to confirm it."
Bilalov was axed after Putin toured Olympic sites in the southern city of Sochi a year before the launch of the Games. Amid widespread reports of construction delays and cost overruns, the president singled out Bilalov for a public dressing down over an unfinished ski jump at Roza Khutor, the cost of which had ballooned from 1.2bn to 8bn roubles (£24.8m to £165m). Video footage of Putin ridiculing Bilalov quickly went viral.
Bilalov, a native of the republic of Dagestan, was subsequently stripped of his positions, including as head of a state-owned company building ski resorts across the Caucasus region. He fled the country shortly after.
In April, a criminal case was opened against Bilalov for allegedly misspending more than £60,000 from the state company, including for travel to London during the 2012 Olympics. Prosecutors are also investigating him for allegedly embezzling £1.7m from the company.
The former Olympic official said he believed the source of the mercury was his office in central Moscow. He told Interfax he "began to feel bad in the middle of autumn last year", adding that he felt satisfactory after receiving treatment.
According to Gazeta.ru, an online news portal that saw a copy of Bilalov's medical report, the former official is at a clinic in Baden-Baden. Doctors found four times the normal amount of mercury in his blood. A source close to Bilalov told Gazeta that other employees at his Moscow office were being tested. "Everyone is in shock," the source said.
Bilalov said: "I don't want to blame anyone or speculate on how the mercury appeared in my Moscow office. I have no idea. Upon returning to Moscow, I plan to approach law enforcement agencies so they can help sort out this situation."
With less than a year until the launch, the Russian event has been fraught with scandal and controversy. The budget has swollen to five times original estimates and, at $51bn, it will be the world's most expensive Winter Games. Allegations of corruption, worker mistreatment and environmental damage have also surfaced.
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One of the most striking objects on display at a new museum exhibit here is an ordinary, old, yellow roll of film.
On it is an illegally photographed copy of “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ready for the underground distribution of literature known in Soviet days as samizdat. The film was shot by Oleg Moskvin in 1976. When he was betrayed to the police, he was certified as insane and packed off to a psychiatric hospital, where he stayed until 1984.
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On it is an illegally photographed copy of “The Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ready for the underground distribution of literature known in Soviet days as samizdat. The film was shot by Oleg Moskvin in 1976. When he was betrayed to the police, he was certified as insane and packed off to a psychiatric hospital, where he stayed until 1984.
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Senior Republican lawmaker raises prospect of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother being questioned if she visits US
The father of the two Boston bombing suspects has canceled plans to visit the US, as a senior Republican lawmaker raised the prospect of their mother being questioned should she set foot on American soil.Anzor Tsarnaev cited poor health as the reason why he had to abandon plans to fly from Russia to the US to bury his son Tamerlan – who died in a shootout with police – and support his surviving son Dzhohkar, currently under guard in a secure facility after being charged over the terrorist attack.
Meanwhile, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, Michael McCaul, said Sunday that he believed the suspects' mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, played a "very strong role" in their apparent radicalisation.
He also added a belief that the suspects may have had outside help in preparing for the deadly attack on the Boston Marathon.
McCaul told Fox News Sunday that the type of explosive device used in that terrorist incident – a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel – gave rise to suspicions that they may have received assistance. "That leads me to believe there was a trainer," the representative from Texas said.
It came as both parents of the suspects retreated to a village in the troubled North Caucasus region under intense media attention.
Anzor Tsarnaev had planed to return the US in the coming days. But on Sunday he told reporters that the trip had been postponed.
He told the Reuters news agency: "I am not going back to the United States. For now I am here. I am ill."
Speaking from an undisclosed location in the North Caucuses, Anzor added: "Unfortunately I can't help my child in any way. I am in touch with Dzhohkar's and my own lawyers. They told me they would let me know [what to do]."
He added that both he and Zubeidat had relocated from their homes in Dagestan to an undisclosed village in an effort to keep a low profile amid scrutiny into the family.
In recent days, focus has been placed on the role that the suspects' mother may have had on their ideological development. McCaul said Sunday that she would likely face questioning should she return to the US. The Tsarnaevs emigrated from southern Russia to the Boston area around a decade ago. Both parents have since moved back to Russia.
On Saturday, it was disclosed by US officials that counterparts in Russia had turned over information they had on 26-year-old Tamerlan and his mother, including wiretapped telephone calls between the two.
In early 2011, the Russian FSB internal security service intercepted a conversation between Tamerlan and his mother in which the elder brother vaguely discussed jihad, according to US officials
It is believed that the pair discussed the possibility of the elder brother going to Palestine during one phone call. In the second wiretapped call, Zubeidat is heard speaking to a man who was under investigation by the FBI.
The bureau is known to have opened a file on both Tamerlan and his mother following a request from Russia in 2011, but it concluded that neither was a terrorist threat and closed the case in June of that year after Moscow failed to come forward with more information.
Likewise the CIA asked for more information on the pair later in 2011, but none was forthcoming. The agency did, however, ask that both Tamerlan and his mother's name be entered into a US terrorism database.
The Boston Marathon bombs claimed the lives of three people and injured 264. An MIT police officer was later killed by the pair, sparking a massive manhunt that ended in the death of Tamerlan and the capture of his younger brother.
Dzhohkar, 19, has since been charged with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction – a charge that carries a possible death sentence.
Injured in a final standoff with police four days after the bombings, he is currently being housed in a secure facility as the investigation continues.
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Fever rises Russian anti-Americanism. Monday, 15. April 2013 - 12:06 pm. Biyokulule Online. After the publication of the Washington "Magnitsky list" punishing eighteen Russian officials implicated in violations of human rights, tensions...
As US Seeks Security Pact, Obama Is Set to Meet Putin
New York Times Ties between the United States and Russia have taken one bad turn after another over the past year, beginning with a wave of anti-Americanism during Mr. Putin's presidential campaign in early 2012. After that came legislation and other steps to curb ... and more » |
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Newsday The ethnic roots in Chechnya of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is feeding theories by terrorism experts that an Islamic insurgency in the rebellious, war-torn region of Russia played a part in their radicalization ... Cleveland: Is there a Chechen connection to Boston bombing?WKYC-TV all 295 news articles » |
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The latest spat between Russia and the United States revolves around suspected human rights violations, which led to mutual blacklisting of some government officials earlier this month. A wave of anti-Americanism ...
However, the United States needs a new course of action for the next four years to prevent Russia from negatively affecting U.S. interests across the globe *Anti-Americanism The current Russian ruling elite has not overcome ...
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Anti-Americanism: Why do they hate us?
Muncie Star Press Vladimir Putin's state-directed anti-Americanism is transparent, his banning adoption of Russianchildren being the latest example. Putin has blamed our country for his, and by extension Russian, problems. (Page 2 of 2). As observed in a recent op-ed ... |
One comment for “The Suspected Boston Bombers and the Russia Connection”. Vladimir. Fiona is right, saying about deeply-rooted anti-Americanism of Putin. All secret services are infected with it. Only Putin's dismissal can ...
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CNBC.com "Anti-Americanism within Russia is only getting worse, and these events will not change anything.Russia and America already cooperate when it comes to terror-related issues, and this will not change much," said one source who asked not to be named. and more » |
Such measures already exist in rural cities. But ever since its decriminalization in 1993, the Russian government hadn't organized such an attack on homosexuality - considered by many Russians as a deviancy. ... The multiplication of repressive laws and the development of a populist state, based on the promotion of patriotism, the Orthodox Church andanti-Americanism ended up dissolving the layer of cynicism that was protecting the journalist. This has a name: it is ...
The Courage Required To Come Out In Putin's Russia
Worldcrunch The multiplication of repressive laws and the development of a populist state, based on the promotion of patriotism, the Orthodox Church and anti-Americanism ended up dissolving the layer of cynicism that was protecting the journalist. This has a name ... |
