Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Voice of America: In Boston's Wake, Sochi Eyes Olympics, Chechens

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
In Boston's Wake, Sochi Eyes Olympics, Chechens
Apr 24th 2013, 20:38

Pass the metal scanner on arrival at Sochi station or watch Cossacks patrol the streets of the 2014 Winter Olympics venue and you know it did not take the Boston Marathon bombs to alert Russian organizers to two facts. One, that a major sporting event makes a prime target for terrorism; and, two, that Chechens and other Muslim peoples of Moscow's restive Caucasus mountain provinces around Sochi nurse deep historic grievances that pose a constant risk of violence. In the six years since ...

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