Staring defiantly into the camera with guns in their hands, this is the teenage bride suspected of blowing up the Moscow metro this week and her militant husband whose death is believed to have prompted the suicide attack.
Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, believed to be just 17 years old, became a widow last year when her husband, Dagestani Islamist rebel Umalat Magomedov was killed.
Monday's bombing, which killed 39 people and wounded 90 others, is believed to be a revenge attack for the deaths of men - including Magomedov - at the hands of Russian troops in Chechnya.
Abdurakhmanova was among the Chechen women known as the 'Black Widows', who have vowed to avenge the deaths of their fathers, brothers and husbands killed by Russian forces.
Magomedov died when traffic police began shooting down a car in which he and three other militants were travelling in in the town of Khasavyurt, Dagestan.
Monday's rush hour attack, in which Abdurakhmanova and an accomplice are believed to have detonated explosive vests 40 minutes apart, has prompted fears of a wave of Black Widow suicide bombings in Russia.
These fears intensified on Wednesday when a bomb at a school in Dagestan, which borders Chechnya, left 12 people dead.
According to Russia's Kommersant newspaper, Abdurakhmanova's husband was the leader of a terrorist group in Dagestan linked to the Islamist movement of Doku Umarov, who today claimed responsibility for the metro bombings.
Umarov, who leads Islamic militants in Chechnya and other regions in Russia's North Caucasus, said in a video posted on a pro-rebel website that the twin suicide attacks were an act of revenge for the killing of civilians by Russian security forces.
He warned that attacks on Russian cities would continue.
Police released photographs of the facial remains of the two bombers this week. The woman who carried out the second bombing has not been identified but Kommersant claims it was a 20-year-old Chechen woman Markha Ustarkhanova. [..]
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