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Topic: Chechnya

Ramzan Kadyrov; Vladimir Putin (AP/Musa Sadulayev/Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Putin's Chechnya problem

Danielle Ryan
(AP/Evan Vucci)

The right's dictator lust

Heather Digby Parton
FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2009, file photo, people walk in Red Square, with St. Basil Cathedral, left, the Kremlin's Spassky Tower, right back, and Lenin Mausoleum, right, in Moscow, Russia. Russia cannot be ignored. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has never posed such a vexing problem to U.S. policymakers as it does now. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East and increasingly Asia and the Americas, Russia is making its voice heard and its presence felt. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) (AP)

Brendan Gauthier
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Natasha Lennard
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Natasha Lennard
Surveillance footage of suspects ahead of Boston bombings (Wikimedia)

Lara Jakes, Eileen Sullivan

Sebastian Rotella - ProPublica
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A man looks out his door as a SWAT team member knocks on his neighbor's door as they search for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., April 19, 2013. (Reuters)

Michelle R. Smith
Ambassador Petr Gandalovič

Katie McDonough
A man identified as Movsar Barayev, reported to be a leader of armed Chechens, who seized a crowded Moscow theater, right, is seen with another male captor, center, and a woman captor, left, somewhere inside the theater, Moscow, in this early Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 image from television by Russia's NTV. (AP)

Chechens: Legendary tough guys

Laura Miller
This undated photo provided by the vkontakte website shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP)

Portrait emerges of suspect 2

Patrick Tracey
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Suspects wanted for questioning in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing April 15 are seen in handout photo released through the FBI website, April 18, 2013. (Reuters)

Prachi Gupta

Tamerlan's Amazon wishlist

Andrew Leonard
Police check luggages for explosives at railway station in Krasnoyarsk, March 31, 2010. Authorities said the blasts were linked to the North Caucasus - a string of heavily Muslim provinces that includes Chechnya (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

Alex Seitz-Wald
A man looks out his door as a SWAT team member knocks on his neighbor's door as they search for the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., April 19, 2013. (Reuters)

Eileen Sullivan, Meghan Barr, Katie Zezima
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A barefooted woman runs for cover as police surround a home while searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. (Charles Krupa)

Prachi Gupta
A police officers rides on the back of a van at a staging area as a manhunt is conducted for a suspect Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Eileen Sullivan, Meghan Barr, Katie Zezima
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