A Black Widow (Russian: чёрная вдова, romanized: chyornaya vdova) or Shahidka (шахидка—Russian feminine gender derivation from shahid) is a Chechen female suicide bomber with Islamist motives. They became known at the Moscow theater hostage crisis of October 2002.
A Black Widow (Russian: чёрная вдова, romanized: chyornaya vdova) or Shahidka (шахидка—Russian feminine gender derivation from shahid) is a Chechen female suicide bomber with Islamist motives. They became known at the Moscow theater hostage crisis of October 2002.
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