Would Chechens Really Strike Outside Russia?
Chechen rebels with shot-down Russian helicopter in 1994 (Photo: Mikhail Efstafiev/Wiki Commons)
If Chechens are actually involved in the Boston attack, it would be first outside Russia by militants from former Soviet republic, says the Guardian’s Luke Harding.
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