A long - for the BBC - article on this often forgotten country, until the Boston bombings. The opening:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger Boston marathon bombing suspect, will appear in court in just over two weeks. In Dagestan, the Russian republic where the brothers lived before emigrating to the US, few believe he is guilty. But an Islamist insurgency has been under way for years here - and it's all too easy for young men to become radicalised.
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23004244