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This is the baby-faced 'Black Widow' suspected of blowing up herself and scores of commuters on the Moscow underground this week.
Looking like an Islamic extremist version of Bonnie and Clyde, Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, 17, and her husband, a notorious militant leader, pose with guns.
Abdurakhmanova became a widow last year when Umalat Magomedov, an Islamist rebel in the southern republic of Dagestan, was shot by Russian agents.
Police believe she blew herself up at the Lubyanka metro station on Monday, underneath the FSB security service headquarters, to avenge the deaths of those killed by Russian troops fighting rebels in the Caucasus region.
'Black Widow': Suspected suicide bomber Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova poses with her husband Umalat Magomedov, who was killed in in December last year
The pair also posed in the undated pictures with Abdurakhmanova, this time wearing the full veil across her face, holding what appears to be a grenade
The teenager, named in Moscow's Kommersant newspaper yesterday, and another suicide bomber killed 40 people in their attack. A further 90 were injured. The second bomber is believed to be 20-year- old Markha Ustarkhanova, who last year ran away from her parents' home to marry warlord Said-Emin Khizriev, a rebel leader in war-torn Chechnya. He was killed in a Russian operation in October.
Abdurakhmanova's 30-year-old husband 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.
Abdurakhmanova brandishes a gun wearing black Islamic dress, left, and right, the grainy picture which is understood to be her remains after Monday's suicide attack
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.
Russian officials would not immediately confirm either identification claim.
Putin said it was likely the bombings in Dagestan could have been planned by the same group behind the Moscow attack.
'I don't rule out that this is one and the same gang,' he said at a televised Cabinet meeting. President Dmitry Medvedev later called the attacks 'links of the same chain'.
Aftermath: Rescue services and firefighters carry away injured victims after Monday's suicide attacks
Umarov's statement claiming responsibility for the bombings was posted after prime minister Vladimir Putin vowed to 'drag out of the sewer' the terrorists who plotted the attacks. Doku Umarov has claimed responsibility for the metro bombings and warned it could be followed by more attacks
The bombings in Moscow were the first suicide attacks in the Russian capital in six years and shocked a country that had grown accustomed to having such violence confined to its restive southern corner.
Umarov blamed ordinary ssians for turning a blind eye to the killing of civilians in the Caucasus by security forces and warned that more attacks on Russian cities were coming.
'I promise you that the war will come to your streets and you will feel it in your lives, feel it on your own skin,' Umarov said in a video posted on kavkazcentre.com, a website affiliated with the rebels.
Officials at Russian law enforcement agencies refused to comment on Umarov's claim, but the Russian security chief has previously said that the tube bombings were carried out by militants from the Caucasus.
Moscow police have been on high alert since the attacks, beefing up roadblocks on roads leading into the city.
The agency's chief said yesterday that thousands of officers had been sent to patrol the subway, check on migrants from southern provinces and inspect warehouses that could hold arms caches.
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