The grave of Canadian Muslim convert William Plotnikov is seen in the Dagestani village of Utamysh, some 85 km (53 miles) south of the capital Makhachkala May 1, 2013. An ethnic Russian who immigrated to Toronto with his parents as a teenager in 2005, Plotnikov converted to Islam as a young man and flew to Dagestan to join Islamist militants waging an insurgency against Russian rule of the North Caucasus. The abrupt transformation of a Russian emigre into a rebel fighter strikes an astonishing parallel with the life of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the son of Chechen immigrants to the United States who is now the prime suspect in the Boston bombings. REUTERS/Maria Golovnina (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) - RTXZ6TQ
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