Russia’s lobbying team could be called upon to help repair relations with the United States now that the Chechen ties of the Boston bombing suspects are in the limelight.
Tensions between Russia and the United States were building before the Boston Marathon bombing, with disagreements over Syria and human rights playing out in sharp public statements.
Now, given the revelations about suspects in the Boston Marathon attack, the Russian government might be eager to dial down the temperature.
will we ever know if there is a Russian connection to Boston bombings?
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has cracked down on Chechen rebels who have pushed for independence from Moscow. The struggle in the Muslim-majority enclave has helped spawned several terrorist attacks by Chechen rebels, including a 2010 attack on the Moscow Metro.
Though Chechen in ethnicity, the suspected bombers’ ties to the region are loose. The suspects — brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev — reportedly arrived in the United States in 2001 as refugees from Kyrgyzstan.
Like other major world powers, Russia has a sizable lobbying force in Washington that it turns to in times of crisis.
if there is no connection to the Russian gov't what would and why is there a Russian lobby, what could they possibly lobby about in respect to this attack?
