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for almost two decades, fighting two brutal separatist wars in Chechnya. Analysts suggest Monday"s attacks are revenge for a recent operation in Chechnya that saw the deaths of over 20 radical Islamic fighters.In early March, the Federal Security Service said the notorious North Caucasian gang leader Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatsky, who was linked to the bombing of the Nevsky Express in September 2009, was killed in a police sweep in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Five other militants involved in the attack were also reportedly killed.
On Tuesday, Russian media quoted sources close to the investigation as saying the two female suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the Moscow subway could have been trained for the attacks by Tikhomirov"s gang. The leading Russian business daily Kommersant said the gang leader was personally involved in training around 30 suicide bombers, nine of whom had already carried out suicide attacks.