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A militant Islamist group released a video threatening attacks at the Sochi Olympics and claiming two suicide bombings in Volgograd last month. Russian authorities are reportedly looking for as many as four 'black widow' suicide bombers, three of whom are from Dagestan, who may be targeting the Sochi Olympics, including Ruzanna (Salima) Ibragimova, who has been missing from Dagestan since last month. Umedjon Tojiev, a member of the Islamic Renaissance Party who was in custody on extremism charges, died in a prison hospital in Tajikistan. Speculation mounted that Islamic Caucasus Emirate leader Doku Umarov is dead, after the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) issued a condolence message to jihadists for his death.