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		<title>Russian Anti-Gay Bill Passes, Protesters Detained</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/11/russian-anti-gay-bill-passes-protesters-detained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Mansur Mirovalev and Nataliya Vasilyeva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MOSCOW) — A bill that stigmatizes Russia&#8216;s gay community and bans the distribution of information about homosexuality to children was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of parliament Tuesday. More than two dozen protesters were attacked by anti-gay activists and then detained by police, hours before the State Duma approved the Kremlin-backed legislation in a 436-0 vote. The bill banning &#8220;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations&#8221; still needs to be passed by the appointed upper house and signed into law by President Vladimir Putin, but neither step is in doubt. The measure is part of an effort to promote traditional Russian values as opposed to Western liberalism, which the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church see as corrupting Russian youth and contributing to the protests against Putin&#8217;s rule. The only parliament member to abstain Tuesday was Ilya Ponomaryov, who has supported the protest movement to the aggravation of the leadership of his pro-Kremlin party. Before the vote, gay rights activists attempted to hold a &#8220;kissing rally&#8221; outside the State Duma, located across the street from Red Square in central Moscow, but they were attacked by hundreds of Orthodox Christian activists and members of pro-Kremlin youth groups. The mostly burly young men with closely cropped hair pelted them with eggs while shouting obscenities and homophobic slurs. Riot police moved in, detaining more than two dozen protesters, almost all of them gay rights activists. Some who were not detained were beaten by masked men on a central street about a mile away. The legislation will impose hefty fines for providing information about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community to minors or holding gay pride rallies. Breaching the law will carry a fine of up to 5,000 rubles ($156) for an individual and up to 1 million rubles ($31,000) for media organizations. After the bill was given preliminary approval in January, lawmakers changed the wording of &#8220;homosexual propaganda&#8221; to &#8220;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations,&#8221; which backers of the bill defined as &#8220;relations not conducive to procreation.&#8221; Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89547&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Faces Security Challenges at Sochi Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Sergei Venyavsky and Vladimir Isachenkov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SOCHI, Russia) — Drones hovering overhead, robotic vehicles roaming Olympic venues to search for explosives, high-speed patrol boats sweeping the Black Sea coast — Russian officials say they will be using cutting-edge technology to make sure the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi will be &#8220;the safest Olympics in history.&#8221; But intelligence analysts and regional experts say an Islamic insurgency raging across the North Caucasus mountains that tower over the seaside resort of Sochi presents daunting threats. Despite the deployment of tens of thousands of Russian troops, police officers and private guards equipped with high-tech gadgetry, the simmering unrest in the Caucasus could put President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s pet project at risk. (Q&#38;A: Sochi’s Olympics Chief on the 2014 Winter Games) The Sochi games are the first Olympics in history that are almost on the doorstep of an active insurgency whose members could potentially try to &#8220;upstage the games with some kind of attack, which would provide a kind of bad PR for the Russian government,&#8221; said Matthew Henman, a senior analyst at Jane&#8217;s Terrorism and Insurgency Center in London. Potential assailants could disrupt the games even with scarce resources, he said, pointing at the recent Boston Marathon explosions, where two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs killed three people and injured more than 260 in April. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need an awful lot of expertise to create primitive but largely effective explosive devices,&#8221; Henman said. The elder of the two ethnic Chechen brothers from Russia who are accused of staging the Boston bombings spent six months last year in the restive Russian province of Dagestan, which lies about 500 kilometers (300 miles) east of Sochi, about the distance between Boston and Philadelphia. Russian investigators have been trying to determine whether he had contact with local Islamic militants. Dagestan has become the center of the insurgency that spread across Russia&#8217;s North Caucasus region after two separatist wars in the 1990s in neighboring Chechnya. Rebels seeking to carve out a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the region have targeted police and other officials in near-daily shootings and bombings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89533&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Russia, Without Love: Vladimir Putin Divorces Wife Lyudmila</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/06/in-russia-without-love-vladimir-putin-divorces-wife-lyudmila/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Moscow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday evening, the Russian public got the news of President Vladimir Putin’s divorce the same way they have gotten every fact about his private life — spoon-fed to them in tiny, measured and rather tasteless doses. The First Couple of the Kremlin made the announcement on national television while dressed in formal wear, with the stiffness of wax statuettes and the careful orchestration of the ballet they had just finished watching. It was meant to be a rare bit of candor from a man whose government has guarded his family affairs as closely as the codes in his nuclear suitcase. But it mostly served to reaffirm the rule Russians have long gotten used to: everything about Putin&#8217;s life is a secret unless he dictates otherwise. The scripted statement, which Putin made alongside his former wife Lyudmila, was broadcast on the Kremlin&#8217;s mouthpiece television channel, Rossiya 24. It was made to a lone reporter who acted as though she just happened to catch them walking out of a performance of the ballet Esmeralda at the Kremlin&#8217;s private theater. The reporter rattled off a few questions about what they had thought of the music, the dancing and the choreography, and Putin answered as if himself eager for her to get to the point. Finally, she did. &#8220;You show up in public so rarely, and there are rumors that you don&#8217;t live together. Is that true or not?&#8221; The couple exchanged a knowing glance before Putin stated. &#8220;Well, it is so.&#8221; (MORE: Putin Looking for Love Online—in Spoof Ad) The reason, he said, was the overwhelming limelight that comes with public office and which &#8220;some people&#8221; simply cannot bear. He made it clear that it was his wife who could not bear all the publicity, although Putin has always been the one to snap like a bulldog when journalists pry into his love life. The first and clearest lesson on that score came in April 2008, when a Russian newspaper ran a story claiming Putin had left his wife to marry a 24-year-old<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89078&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian President Putin, Wife Divorce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jim Heintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MOSCOW) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila announced their divorce Thursday after nearly 30 years of marriage. The Putins made the statement on state television after attending a ballet performance at the Kremlin. &#8220;It was our joint decision,&#8221; Putin said. Lyudmila Putin was rarely seen in public during her husband&#8217;s long tenure at the top of Russian politics. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like publicity and flying is difficult for me,&#8221; she said. The Putins married on July 28, 1983 and have two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina. In the televised announcement of their divorce, Putin appeared reserved and Lyudmila smiled tentatively. &#8220;We practically never saw each other. To each his own life,&#8221; Putin said. Lyudmila Putin said, &#8220;We will eternally be very close people. I&#8217;m thankful to Vladimir Vladimirovich that he supports me.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=89073&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11 People Hospitalized After Moscow Subway Fire</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/05/four-people-hospitalized-after-moscow-metro-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MOSCOW) — A rush-hour fire in Moscow&#8217;s subway on Wednesday injured several people, forced the evacuation of thousands of commuters and closed parts of the network, authorities said. The fire started after a power cable caught fire in a tunnel leading to the Okhotny Ryad station adjacent to Red Square, the Emergencies Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said nearly 60 people sought medical help and 11 were hospitalized. Most of them suffered from smoke inhalation. Thousands were evacuated. As firefighters were putting out the fire, authorities closed one of the subway lines that cuts through central Moscow. Eyewitnesses say central Moscow streets were thronged with crowds who ended up walking to work. The subway resumed regular service by noon Moscow time, but half an hour later officials again shut part of the line after they found a smoldering cable at another tunnel next to the Okhotny Ryad station. Normal service resumed two hours later. Moscow&#8217;s subway is an essential transport link, serving up to 7 million people a day. Station or line closures are highly unusual for the network, which has the reputation of being the city&#8217;s most reliable means of transport.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88877&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do National Smoking Bans Actually Work?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/06/03/do-national-smoking-bans-actually-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Katz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world&#8217;s third largest tobacco market has officially banned smoking. As of June 1, Russians are no longer allowed to light up on public transportation, at airports and train stations, and inside schools and hospitals, among other public spots. Cigarette ads will also vanish from streets, and smoking won&#8217;t be featured in Russian-made movies and cartoons (sorry, Gena the pipe-smoking crocodile). The ban is the country’s most comprehensive effort yet to encourage daily smokers — more than half of men and about one-sixth of women, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — to kick the habit and prevent about 200,000 deaths each year. But will it actually work? Here&#8217;s how similar efforts have played out in other developed nations. Ireland Ireland became the first nation to institute a countrywide workplace-smoking ban in 2004. The new regulation built onto the 1988 sanctions against cigarette smoking in many public buildings and on public transportation (save for smoking-permitted carriages). In 2005, researchers recorded a 17% drop in respiratory issues and found that 80% of those surveyed didn’t just say the ban encouraged them to quit; 88% said it kept them smoke-free. Prosmoking lobbyists still take issue with the initiatives fueled by Health Minister James Reilly, who recently revealed that his father and brother died from smoking-related illnesses and who is cracking down on package marketing, but his policies appear effective. New research on the effect of the 2004 legislation found that double-digit drops in heart disease and strokes and that cleaner air had prevented 3,700 deaths. China Its first efforts came in May 2006, when officials announced that the Beijing Olympics would be smoke-free — specifically hospitals used for the games and public transportation. In May 2011, the government pushed to puff out cigarette smoking at all indoor public venues. More than two years later, the consensus is that it didn’t really work. But it was a tall order to begin with: More than one-third of the world’s smokers are Chinese — in 2012, the average citizen smoked 30% more than in 1990 — and 1 million of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88585&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A woman smokes a cigarette in a cafe in Moscow, on May 31, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>The Syrian Chessboard: Behind the Game Played by Russia, Israel, the U.S. and Other Powers</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/31/the-syrian-chess-board-behind-the-game-played-by-russia-israel-the-u-s-and-other-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 17:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick / Jerusalem</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The umbrella group representing Syria’s rebellion on the world stage announced on Thursday that they would not attend peace talks proposed to take place in Geneva during June, a flat rejection that might appear to sideline the role of diplomacy in the civil war. But diplomacy is running full bore in the Syrian conflict, and even as horrors multiply on the battlefield, a good portion of the war is also being carried out in words. The best evidence might be the statements that overshadowed the rebels’ declaration in the same news cycle: President Bashar Assad hinted in a television interview that Russia has already delivered some components of an antiaircraft battery known as S-300. Assad’s remarks amounted to what was originally dubbed CNN diplomacy, the use of satellite television to deliver a message. The term is no longer in use, in part because it has become the norm and in part because there are so many alternatives to CNN. In this case, the medium was a significant part of the message: the embattled Syrian President spoke with al-Manar, the satellite channel run by Hizballah, the Lebanon-based militia Syria supports alongside the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose Press TV propaganda arm elucidated some of the finer points of the sit-down. Military commanders like to quote Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum that war is the extension of politics by other means. But you never hear diplomats reference Mary Poppins on the relevant criteria for the perfect nanny: “Play games. All sorts.” Consider some of the diplomatic games engendered by the Syrian conflict: (MORE: Arming Syria’s Rebellion: How Libyan Weapons and Know-How Reach Anti-Assad Fighters) Sabre Rattling The S-300 is an impressive threat to enemy warplanes. When Russia made a deal to sell the system to Iran, the Pentagon was so unsettled by its implications for U.S. airpower that Washington pressured Moscow for years to renege on the deal, which it finally did in 2010, under cover of international sanctions aimed at Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program. Russia’s promise to deliver the same system to Syria means almost nothing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88405&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Bombing Suspect Is Walking, Mother Says</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/30/boston-bombing-suspect-is-walking-mother-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 03:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Max Seddon and Musa Sadulayev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MAKHACHKALA, Russia) — The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent, their mother told The Associated Press on Thursday. Meanwhile, the father of a Chechen immigrant killed in Florida while being interrogated by the FBI about his ties to the slain brother maintained that the U.S. agents killed his son &#8220;execution-style.&#8221; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, walked without a wheelchair to speak to his mother last week for the first and only phone conversation they have had since he has been in custody, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told the AP. In a rare glimpse at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev&#8217;s state of mind, he told her he was getting better and that he had a very good doctor, but was struggling to understand what happened, she said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t hold back his emotions either, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What&#8217;s happening?,&#8221; she said. The April 15 bombings killed three people and wounded more than 260. Elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police, and Dzhokhar remains in a prison hospital after being badly wounded. &#8220;I could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan,&#8221; their mother said, standing by the family&#8217;s insistence that their children are innocent. The Tsarnaevs met the AP in their new apartment in a 14-story building in a well-to-do area of Makhachkala, the capital of the restive Caucasus province of Dagestan. The apartment had no furniture apart from a TV, a few rugs, and wallpaper materials lying on the floor. (MORE: Exclusive: Dagestani Relative of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is a Prominent Islamist) Anzor Tsarnaev, the suspects&#8217; father, said they bought it for Tamerlan, his wife, and their young daughter in the expectation that they would move to Makhachkala later this year. He added that they planned to turn their old home in a dingy district on the outskirts of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=88334&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 Victim of Russian Suicide Bombing Dies of Wounds</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/26/1-victim-of-russian-suicide-bombing-dies-of-wounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 14:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MAKHACHKALA, Russia) — A woman who was among those wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan has died. Police and doctors said Sunday the 37-year-old woman was the only one to die, other than the suicide bomber, but that several others remained hospitalized in serious condition. Saturday&#8217;s attack wounded at least 17 others, including two children and five police officers. Police later identified the attacker as the widow of two Islamic militants killed by security forces. Dagestan remains an epicenter of violence in the confrontation between Islamic extremists and federal forces. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012. MORE: Bombing Probe Casts Spotlight on Awkward U.S.-Russia Security Ties<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87721&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Female Suicide Bomber Injures 18 in Russian Region</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/25/female-suicide-bomber-injures-12-in-russian-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Arsen Mollayev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MAKHACHKALA, Russia) — A female suicide bomber identified as a widow of two killed Islamists blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, police said. The bomber detonated an explosives-laden belt in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala, Dagestan&#8217;s police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said. The bomber was identified as Madina Alieva, who married an Islamist who was killed in 2009 and then wedded another Islamic radical who was gunned down last year, police spokeswoman Fatina Ubaidatova said. Since 2000, at least two dozen women, most of them from the Caucasus, have carried out suicide bombings in Russian cities and aboard trains and planes. All were linked to an Islamic insurgency that spread throughout Dagestan and the predominantly Muslim Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya. (MORE: Bombing Probe Casts Spotlight on Awkward U.S.-Russia Security Ties) The bombers are often called &#8220;black widows&#8221; in Russia because many are the widows, or other relatives, of militants killed by security forces. Islamic militants are believed to convince &#8220;black widows&#8221; that a suicide bombing will reunite them with their dead relatives beyond the grave. Police said two of the people injured in the attack were in a critical condition. There were no details about the injured children. The Tsarnaev brothers suspected of carrying out last month&#8217;s Boston marathon bombings, are ethnic Chechens who lived in Dagestan before moving to the United States. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother who was killed a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings, spent six months in Dagestan in 2012. Dagestan remains an epicenter of violence in the confrontation between radical Islamists and federal forces. This week, a double explosion in Makhachkala killed four civilians and left 44 injured, while three security officers and three suspected militants have been killed in other incidents. Islamists strive to create an independent Muslim state, or &#8220;emirate,&#8221; in the Caucasus and parts of southern Russia with a sizable Muslim population. Although Chechen separatists<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87693&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia: Syrian Regime May Take Part in Peace Talks</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/24/russia-syrian-regime-may-take-part-in-peace-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / BASSEM MROUE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(BEIRUT) &#8212; The Syrian government has agreed &#8220;in principle&#8221; to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the Arab country&#8217;s conflict, Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry said Friday. It was the first confirmation that President Bashar Assad&#8216;s government would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition. (MORE: Syria Government to Take Part in Peace Conference) But despite the announcement from Moscow, one of Assad&#8217;s staunchest allies, Damascus has not offered any definitive statement on the proposed talks. Russia and the U.S. joined efforts earlier this month to convene an international conference to bring representatives of Assad&#8217;s regime and the opposition to the negotiating table. The aim of the talks would be to establish the outlines of a transitional government as a way out of the crisis. More than 70,000 people have been killed and several million displaced since the uprising against Assad erupted in March 2011 and escalated into a civil war. The U.S.-Russian plan, similar to the one set out last year in Geneva, calls for talks on a transitional government and an open-ended cease-fire. The Moscow announcement came after days of talks there between Syria&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister Faysal Mekdad and Russian officials. Russia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks Friday that the Syrian government has &#8220;agreed in principle&#8221; to participate in the conference in Geneva, which is expected within two weeks. &#8220;We note with satisfaction that we have received an agreement in principle from the Syrian government in Damascus to participate in the international conference, in the interest of Syrians themselves, to find a political solution,&#8221; Lukashevich said. He added, however, that it is impossible to set the date for the conference at this point because there is &#8220;no clarity about who will speak on behalf of the opposition and what powers they will have.&#8221; Lukashevich also said Moscow &#8220;was not encouraged&#8221; by the results of recent meetings of members of the Syrian National Coalition, the country&#8217;s main opposition group that has called on Assad to step<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87604&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake Hits Russia&#8217;s Far East</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/24/earthquake-hits-russias-far-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 06:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / NATALIYA VASILYEVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MOSCOW) — A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia&#8217;s Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter. Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk&#8217;s seismic station of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told The Associated Press the epicenter was in the Sea of Okhotsk, east of the Russian coast and north of Japan. She said the quake registered 8.0 on the Richter scale. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude of 8.2. The epicenter was in the Kuril-Kamchatka arc, one of the most seismically active regions in the world. Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but lifted it soon afterwards. Kolomiyets said the earthquake originated 600 kilometers (375 miles) under the sea bed and with the tremors so far down they have the potential to spread quite far. Russian news agencies reported that residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Kamchatka peninsula in the Okhotsk Sea felt the tremors for about five minutes. Residents ran out of the buildings. School children were evacuated. Tremors were felt in Moscow, prompting some people to evacuate from buildings across the city. Tremors are extremely rare in Moscow, the last recorded instance was in the 1977. The Russian Meteorological Service confirmed these reports but said they did not have immediate information about the magnitude of the tremors of Moscow. Russian news agencies also cited eyewitnesses reporting strong tremors across Siberia.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87565&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Oligarchs Foot Most of 2014 Sochi Olympics</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/20/russian-oligarchs-foot-most-of-2014-sochi-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / NATALIYA VASILYEVA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SOCHI, Russia) — The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin&#8217;s slope, Gazprom&#8217;s gondola lift and Sberbank&#8217;s ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of construction workers leave no doubt about who is paying for the 2014 Winter Games: Russia&#8217;s business powerhouses. Other countries that have hosted the Olympics have overwhelmingly used public funds to pay for the construction of needed venues and new infrastructure. The Russian government, however, has gotten state-controlled companies and tycoons to foot more than half of the bill, which now stands at $51 billion and makes the 2014 Winter Games by far the most expensive Olympics in history. In contrast, the much-larger 2012 Summer Olympics in London cost about $14.3 billion and the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing cost about $40 billion. For President Vladimir Putin, the games have been a matter of pride. He has entrusted the country&#8217;s top businessmen with Sochi&#8217;s key projects. He himself is spending increasing amounts of time in the southern Russian city, hosting world leaders at his luxurious presidential palace. Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister under Putin, described the tycoons&#8217; participation as a sort of tax imposed by the president. &#8220;If you want to carry on doing business in Russia, here&#8217;s the tax you need to pay — the kind of a tax that he wants you to pay,&#8221; Kasyanov, now an opposition leader, told The Associated Press. This is particularly true of those like metals tycoons Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska, who made their fortunes in the rags-to-riches privatizations after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. For others who have grown fabulously wealthy since Putin came to power in 2000, the 2014 Olympics have been a chance to reap the profits through lucrative state contracts. Most of the projects the tycoons are involved in are not profitable — and many businessmen are making no secret of the losses they are incurring. But anyone who does business in Russia today is acutely aware of the importance of maintaining good relations with the government<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86933&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Russian Diplomat Explains Reasons for Syrian Arms Sales</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/17/top-russian-diplomat-explains-logic-behind-syrian-arms-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Moscow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks, the U.S. and its allies have done just about everything short of getting down on their collective knees and begging Russia to stop delivering weapons to the Syrian government. President Vladimir Putin has received visits this month from three of the most powerful statesmen in the western world: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on May 7, British Prime Minister David Cameron three days later and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu three days after that. Along with U.S. President Barack Obama, who spoke to Putin by phone on April 29, they have all implored the Russian leader to stop arming President Bashar Assad’s regime. However, last week it became clear that Russia was going ahead with S-300 sales immediately despite Kerry&#8217;s overtures. This week, the New York Times reported that Russia is delivering not only the sophisticated S-300 antiaircraft systems to Syria but the dreaded Yakhont &#8220;ship-killer&#8221; missiles, which would make it a lot more painful for any foreign navies trying to intervene in Syria or provide supplies to the rebels by sea. Why has Russia apparently decided to ramp up its arms supplies to Damascus, despite the West&#8217;s pleas? TIME spoke last week with top Russian diplomat Andrei Klimov, the deputy chairman of the foreign-affairs committee in the Russian parliament, who explained it as Moscow hedging its bets. (MORE: Exclusive: ‘We Will Slaughter All of Them.’ The Rebel Behind the Syrian Atrocity Video) Weapons systems like the S-300, he said, &#8220;would simply set the right conditions&#8221; for negotiating Assad&#8217;s departure. On May 7, Kerry and Putin agreed to begin those negotiations at an international summit in the coming weeks. &#8220;To put it simply, the S-300 will put a damper on any desire to attack Syria from the air if that is the real intention of our partners&#8221; heading into these negotiations. Russia&#8217;s intention in all of this is to avoid making the same mistake it made with Libya, said Klimov, who has traveled to Syria during the civil war there to assess Russia&#8217;s options. In<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86822&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Dagestani Relative of Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is a Prominent Islamist</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/exclusive-cousin-who-became-close-to-tamerlan-tsarnaev-in-dagestan-is-a-prominent-islamist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Kizlyar, Russia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, when Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in the Russian region of Dagestan, he had a guide with an unusually deep knowledge of the local Islamist community: a distant cousin named Magomed Kartashov. Six years older than Tsarnaev, Kartashov is a former police officer and freestyle wrestler — and one of the region’s most prominent Islamists. In 2011, Kartashov founded and became the leader of an organization called the Union of the Just, whose members campaign for Shari‘a and pan-Islamic unity in Dagestan, often speaking out against U.S. policies across the Muslim world. The group publicly renounces violence. But some of its members have close links to militants; others have served time in prison for weapons possession and abetting terrorism — charges they say were based on fabricated evidence. For Tsarnaev, these men formed a community of pious young Muslims with whom he could discuss his ideas of jihad. Tsarnaev&#8217;s mother Zubeidat confirmed that her son is Kartashov&#8217;s third cousin. The two met for the first time in Dagestan, she said, and “became very close.” Since April 19, when Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar were publicly identified as being the key suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon, investigators have been trying to work out how they were radicalized to the point of wanting to kill and maim people in the U.S., the country the brothers had called home for much of their lives. (Tsarnaev was killed during a manhunt for the two men in Boston; his younger brother was shot but survived and has been charged with acts of terrorism including using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.) Much of the investigators’ attention has focused on Tsarnaev’s visit to Dagestan in 2012. It appears that investigators have only recently begun exploring Tsarnaev’s links to his cousin. (MORE: A Dead Militant in Dagestan: Did This Slain Jihadi Meet Tamerlan Tsarnaev?) On May 5, three agents from Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service, the agency known as the FSB, interrogated Kartashov<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85595&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Dead Militant in Dagestan: Did This Slain Jihadi Meet Tamerlan Tsarnaev?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/01/a-dead-militant-in-dagestan-did-this-slain-jihadi-meet-tamerlan-tsarnaev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Makhachkala, Russia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new character appeared over the weekend in the saga of the Boston bombings–Mahmud Mansur Nidal, a teenage Islamist with a thin black beard, round face and gently slanted eyes. In the months before his death last year during a shootout with Russian police, Nidal reportedly met numerous times with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the bombing of the Boston Marathon last month. U.S. investigators are now trying to learn more about the alleged contacts between the two men–and to piece together a biography that the police cut short when Nidal hurled a grenade at them last May. According to Shamil Mutaev, a former investigator who worked on Nidal&#8217;s case, Nidal was born in 1992 in the town of Buynaksk in the mountains of central Dagestan. His father, who was of Palestinian descent, left the family when Nidal was a child and moved to Moscow, from where the father often traveled abroad. Nidal&#8217;s mother, Zarina Mansur, is an ethnic Kumyk, one of the dozens of ethnic groups that populate Dagestan, a troubled republic in the south of Russia. She raised Nidal mostly on her own after his father left, Mutaev says. (MORE: Five Questions in Congress About the Boston Bombings) In his late teens, Nidal got involved with a group of Islamist insurgents based in the forests around the village of Gubden. &#8220;He was young and pliable. His father wasn&#8217;t around. It didn&#8217;t take much to pull him in,&#8221; says Mutaev, who worked for 32 years in the justice system in Dagestan, first as a prosecutor and later as a detective. By the age of 18 or 19 Nidal had joined the insurgent group that operates in and around Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, according to statements released last year by Russia&#8217;s National Anti-Terrorism Committee, which is known as NAK. One of the bloodiest attacks ever attributed to the so-called Makhachkala Gang took place on May 3, 2012. At around 10 pm that evening, a red Mitsubishi sedan pulled up to a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Makhachkala<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84778&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boston-Bomber Trail: Fresh Clues in Rural Dagestan</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/29/picking-up-the-boston-bomber-trail-in-utamysh-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incongruous tombstone of a Canadian mujahid stands on a lush hill at the edge of Utamysh, a village in southern Russia&#8217;s Dagestan region, within reach of the salty breeze that comes off the Caspian Sea. The riddles of the life it demarcates — the ones U.S. investigators are now reportedly studying in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings — start to become apparent even from the stone’s inscription. For one, the name says William Plotnikov, an unusual fusion of English and Russian that hints at his family’s move from Siberia to the West. Then there is the stone’s Islamic crescent moon and star, suggesting a conversion to Islam — as do the weeds that grow over the swollen mound of earth. (In local Muslim tradition, it is forbidden to pluck fresh weeds from a grave site, because they are thought to help the dead atone for sins.) And then there are the grim dates: born in Russia on May 3, 1989, Plotnikov was killed in a shootout with Russia’s counterterrorism forces on July 14, 2012. He was 23. For American investigators, the date of Plotnikov’s death has reportedly been of particular interest. Just a few days after Plotnikov was killed in Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in the Boston bombings, left the region and went back to the U.S. in an apparent hurry. He did not even wait to pick up his new Russian passport, which his parents claim to be the reason he came to Russia in the first place. (MORE: Exclusive: Imam of Mosque Visited by Bombing Suspect Speaks to TIME) The parallels between Plotnikov&#8217;s and Tsarnaev’s biographies are also striking. Both their families have roots in predominantly Muslim regions of Russia — Plotnikov’s mother is Tatar; Tsarnaev’s parents are from the North Caucasus. Both of them became avid amateur boxers in North America after their families emigrated there. Both of them embraced radical Islam while grasping around for an identity in their adopted homes. Both of them came to Dagestan to explore their faith. And<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84222&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Imam of Mosque Visited by Bombing Suspect Speaks to TIME</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/26/exclusive-time-speaks-to-dagestan-imam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Makhachkala, Russia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old imam cringes at the sound of that name — Tamerlan Tsarnaev — furrowing his brow into a bed of creases as he sighs and looks away. There is about half an hour left until the next call to Friday prayers, and he is seated in the third-floor office of his mosque in the city of Makhachkala in southern Russia. At last he indulges the question: &#8220;None of our men, not a single person, has ever known him or ever seen him.&#8221; It is a mantra that Imam Khasan-Khadzhi Gasanaliev has had to repeat for journalists many times this week, ever since it emerged that Tsarnaev, the suspected bomber of the Boston Marathon, had attended services at the mosque on Kotrova Street. The mosque upholds a more fundamentalist version of Islam compared with others in the region of Dagestan, and it has been known as a place of worship for suspected terrorists in Russia. On Thursday, Tsarnaev&#8217;s father Anzor admitted that his son had gone there for services during a six-month visit he made to Dagestan last year. &#8220;He went with me,&#8221; the elder Tsarnaev told a press conference on Thursday in Makhachkala. &#8220;We went wherever there was space. There was not always space on Kotrova. It&#8217;s small.&#8221; He added, &#8220;But he had no friends there. You don&#8217;t make friends that fast around here.&#8221; Investigators have not revealed any links between Tamerlan and any Islamist groups, nor have they explained his alleged motives. But his acquaintances and members of his family have said that he became an adherent of fundamentalist Islam in the years before the bombings. The other suspect in the Boston attacks, Tamerlan&#8217;s younger brother Dzhokhar, told investigators from his hospital bed this week that he and his brother were motivated by the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report in the Washington Post that cited U.S. officials familiar with the investigation. (MORE: Will the Boston Bomber Be Executed?) The officials told the Post that the Tsarnaev brothers were &#8220;self-radicalized,&#8221; meaning that their views were<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84072&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bombing Probe Casts Spotlight on Awkward U.S.-Russia Security Ties</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/24/tsarnaev-fsb-fbi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Makhachkala, Russia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The massive beige-and-white building on Dakhdaev Street was probably the safest place the FBI could find to work this week in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala, where bombings and counterterrorism raids are a routine part of life for the locals. That building is the regional headquarters of the FSB, the state security service that replaced the KGB after the fall of the Soviet Union, and it is fenced off with tall iron bars, blocked from the street by concrete slabs and guarded day and night by surly special-forces troops in full combat gear. So when the American investigators arrived in the Russian region of Dagestan on Tuesday to interview the parents of the Tsarnaev brothers, the prime suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon last week, the questioning took place inside that building. In light of recent tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the FSB&#8217;s hospitality seems remarkable, and it shows how much the Boston bombings have changed the tone between the secret services. On Wednesday morning, an official at the U.S. embassy in Moscow told TIME that the FBI &#8220;is receiving cooperation from the Russian government in its investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing.&#8221; Speaking on customary condition of anonymity, the official added: &#8220;A group from the U.S. embassy in Moscow traveled to Dagestan yesterday [April 23] as part of this cooperation with the Russian government to interview the parents [of the Tsarnaev brothers].&#8221; That day, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of the suspected Boston bombers, was questioned for around eight hours by both the FSB and FBI and only allowed to go home around midnight, according to Heda Saratova, a local rights activist who has been working closely with the family. &#8220;The atmosphere was very cordial,&#8221; Saratova told TIME after speaking with Tsarnaeva. &#8220;But she was exhausted afterwards, as if in a trance.&#8221; For reasons of health, Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspected bombers, stayed home on Tuesday, but the following day both of the parents were questioned for another eight hours. &#8220;The FBI and FSB<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83737&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Older Boston Suspect Made Two Trips to Dagestan, Visited Radical Mosque, Officials Say</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/22/tsarnaev-in-dagestan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster / Makhachkala, Russia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, while visiting his family in the Russian region of Dagestan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the prime suspect in last week&#8217;s Boston Marathon bombings, was flagged as a potential extremist by Russian security services. The only evidence they had were his regular visits to a mosque that gets more than its share of attention from police. Since its construction in 2000, the mosque&#8217;s broad, emerald-colored dome has been the center of the region&#8217;s Salafi community, which adheres to a more orthodox brand of Islam and, over the years, has been a hangout for men killed in shootouts with Russia’s counterterrorism forces. According to a source close to the Russian security services who specializes in religious radicalism, Tsarnaev attended services at the mosque on Kotrova Street during both of the extended visits he made to Dagestan over the past two years. That is why Russia&#8217;s Federal Security Service, the agency better known as the FSB, sent a warning to the FBI in 2011 to be aware of Tsarnaev&#8217;s possible links to extremism. In a statement on April 19, the FBI said it had received information from an unidentified &#8220;foreign government&#8221; that Tsarnaev was &#8220;a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared &#8230; to join unspecified underground groups.&#8221; In response, the FBI said it interviewed Tsarnaev and checked its records for relevant information, but &#8220;did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign.&#8221; (MORE: Tsarnaev Neighbors: Older Bombing Suspect Spent Time in Dagestan Helping Dad With Construction) According to the source in the regional capital of Makhachkala, who spoke to TIME on Monday, Tsarnaev was monitored by Russian counterterrorism forces for at least one month in 2011 and throughout his six-month stay in Dagestan last year. &#8220;There wasn&#8217;t enough time [in 2011] to come to any conclusions about the extent of his involvement [in Islamist extremism],&#8221; the source says, asking to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter. &#8220;So we asked our American colleagues to follow up.&#8221; His account was corroborated by a source close to the FSB in the city of Khasavyurt, the second largest city in Dagestan, who spoke to TIME on Sunday. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t take<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83319&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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