A US government review of the Boston bombings is reported to claim Russia declined FBI requests for more information on one of the suspects two years before the attack.
The information included a telephone call in which Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a police shoot-out after the 2013 bombings, and his mother discussed Islamic jihad, the New York Times has said.
Such information would likely have prompted closer scrutiny of the suspect, the Times said.
The review, coming on the eve of the first anniversary of the April 15 attack, appeared to exonerate the FBI.
Three people were killed in the bombing "They found that the Russians did not provide all the information that they had on him back then, and based on everything that was available, the FBI did all that it could," a US official familiar with the review said, according to the paper.
Russia has in the past denied withholding information.
Two Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar, are suspected of planting pressure-cooker bombs near the Botson marathon's finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 260.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is awaiting trial on charges that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has pleaded not guilty, faces the death penalty The new review, authored by the inspector general of the Office of Intelligence Community, has not been made public, though US lawmakers are to be briefed on it today, the Times said.
It comes after a March congressional report outlined what it called "missed opportunities" that could have prevented the attack.
US media have also reported that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had sought to legally change his name to honour a militant who fought Russian forces in Dagestan, a Russian republic where the Tsarnaev family is from.
A huge police operation led to the arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev According to the Boston Globe, Russian officials warned the FBI and the CIA that the man's radicalisation might include the name change, but that failed to raise alarm.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has pleaded not guilty, is scheduled to stand trial in a federal court in November.
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