This is a pretty horrific read about the brutality of war and revenge.

The Moscow subway blast may be the latest attack by “Black Widows,” women avenging loved ones lost in the Chechen wars.
thedailybeast.com

The metro suicide blasts, which left 38 dead, are believed to have been the work of two such women, who may have been avenging the killing of Said Buryatsky earlier this month by Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB. A Muslim convert born as Alexander Tikhomirov, Buryatsky was the chief ideologist for the Chechen rebels, who seek independence for their republic from Moscow. One of the suicide bombers blew herself up during the morning rush hour at Lubyanka metro station, which serves the nearby headquarters of the FSB.
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The image, however, should not have been surprising. The two Chechen wars, fought in 1994-96 and 1999-2000, were almost unparalleled in their barbarity in the postwar era. The women of Chechnya regularly witnessed the abduction of their husbands, fathers, and brothers, whom Chechen tradition treats as their protectors. In some cases, they were involved in trying to ransom them from Russian custody, an exercise that usually ended with them having to pay to receive a mutilated corpse.

The result was a desire for revenge and a break with the Chechen tradition that men do not send women into war. The Black Widows have participated in two-thirds of the almost 40 rebel attacks that have killed about 900 persons in Russia in the last ten years. In the words of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, they “are trying to force Russians to feel the same pain that they have felt.”