Ellen Barry Nyt News Service

Russian servicemen used bank cards stolen from the remains of a Polish airliner that crashed April 10, withdrawing funds from the savings of one of the 96 Polish officials killed in the disaster, Russian news services reported Monday night, citing law enforcement officials.

A former Chechen separatist who reinvented himself as a proponent of global jihad stepped out of the shadows on Wednesday to take responsibility for two suicide bombings on Moscow's subway, and to offer himself as the face of an increasingly lethal pan-Caucasus insurgency.

Investigators were still marching in and out of the Lubyanka subway station on Monday morning, but Nina Ivanovna, a 57-year-old retiree, was not waiting around to hear their conclusions.

Russian servicemen used bank cards stolen from the remains of a Polish airliner that crashed April 10, withdrawing funds from the savings of one of the 96 Polish officials killed in the disaster, Russian news services reported Monday night, citing law enforcement officials.

A former Chechen separatist who reinvented himself as a proponent of global jihad stepped out of the shadows on Wednesday to take responsibility for two suicide bombings on Moscow's subway, and to offer himself as the face of an increasingly lethal pan-Caucasus insurgency.

Investigators were still marching in and out of the Lubyanka subway station on Monday morning, but Nina Ivanovna, a 57-year-old retiree, was not waiting around to hear their conclusions.