After Boston and Tsarnaevs, Russians Urge U.S. to Rethink Chechnya - NYTimes.com

Reuters Pedestrians cross Putin Prospect, one of the main streets in the 
Chechen capital Grozny on April 20.

After Boston and Tsarnaevs, Russians Urge U.S. to Rethink Chechnya - NYTimes.com
LONDON — Russian commentators are speculating that a Chechen connection in the Boston Marathon bombings will force the United States to reassess its view of the Kremlin’s actions in the troubled Caucasus region.
After the capture on Friday night of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the second suspect in Monday’s attack, following the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his brother, in a gun battle with police, U.S. authorities have yet to establish a motive for the crime.
In Russia, as in the United States, attention focused on whether the bombings were connected with the politics of Chechnya, where the brothers’ family originated.

Reuters Pedestrians cross Putin Prospect, one of the main streets in the Chechen capital Grozny on April 20.

The possibility of such a connection being established is already raising questions about what it means for the recently strained relationship between Moscow and Washington.

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Brother’s Keeper: Did Older Sibling Lure Bombing Suspect Into Plot?

By Olivia B. WaxmanApril 20, 2013114 Comments

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The dramatic arrest of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday night brought the entire city of Boston a collective sense of relief, with crowds streaming into the streets to chants of USA. But the end of the manhunt was in many ways just the start of the process for investigators trying to piece together what may have motivated Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother Tamerlan, 26, who was killed by police early Friday morning. And details emerging over the first 24 hours since police captured the younger Tsarnaev in a backyard boat in Watertown, Mass., reinforce the growing perception that his older brother was the primary driver of the attack.