The father of two men suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings said he would travel from Russia to the United States to bury his elder son.
Anzor Tsarnaev and former wife Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, sitting side by side in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala, denied their sons had planted the bombs at the Boston Marathon.
The parents claim their sons have been framed.
Banging the table in front of him, Mr Tsarnaev said: "I am going to the United States. I want to say that I am going there to see my son, to bury the older one.
"I don't have any bad intentions. I don't plan to blow up anything.
"I am not angry at anyone. I want to go find out the truth," said Mr Tsarnaev who took off his sunglasses only when photographers asked him to.
He said he would go as soon as possible but that he had not yet bought a plane ticket.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva criticised the US police for shooting dead Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, four days after the bombings.
Her other son Dzhokhar, 19, was wounded and captured after a manhunt.
He is in a fair condition in hospital and is charged with two crimes that carry a possible death penalty.
Three people were killed and 264 injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April.
Police say the brothers planted and detonated the two pressure-cooker bombs.
Ms Tsarnaeva said: "I wanted to scream to the whole world, 'What did you do?' What have you done with my son? He was alive. Why did you need to kill him? Why didn't you send him to Guantanamo or whatever? Why? Why? Why did they have to kill him?
"They got him alive, he was in their hands," she shouted, her voice cracking.
"It is some kind of show, spectacle," she said.
She recounted how she had called Tamerlan after the bombings and he had told her not to worry.
"There is a lot that is unexplained," she said, adding that she was considering giving up her US citizenship.
The Tsarnaev family lived in Makhachkala, the capital of the Dagestan region in Russia's volatile north caucasus, more than a decade ago before emigrating to the United States.
Mr Tsarnaev and Ms Tsarnaeva later returned to Russia and their two sons remained in the United States, although Tamerlan came to Dagestan during a six-month stay in Russia last year.
Russian president calls for closer cooperation with US
Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Boston bombings showed the need for Russia and the United States to work more closely on security matters.
Mr Putin also said the bombings prove that the West was wrong in supporting militants in Chechnya.
In his annual question-and-answer session, Mr Putin said: "If we truly join our efforts, we will not allow these strikes and suffer such losses."
He said the two ethnic Chechen brothers accused of staging the explosions, and who only briefly lived in Chechnya as children, have "proven the correctness of our thesis" about the need to pool efforts in the fight against terrorism.
The Russian leader criticised the West for refusing to declare Chechen militants terrorists and for offering them political and financial assistance in the past.
The US has urged the Kremlin to seek a political settlement in Chechnya and provided humanitarian aid to the region during the two separatist wars that began in 1994.
Questions have also been raised about the US government's handling of the case and how well law enforcement agencies share information and cooperate with one another.
US intelligence was alerted when Tamerlan travelled to southern Russia last year, US officials said yesterday.
His trip has come under scrutiny over whether he became involved with or was influenced by Chechen separatists or Islamic militants there, according to US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Russia, which tipped off the FBI in early 2011 with concerns that Tsarnaev may have been a radical Islamist, made a second, identical request to the CIA in late September of the same year, they said.
The FBI interviewed Tsarnaev following the first tip and found no serious threat.
The disclosure of the second warning from the Russians raised questions about whether the CIA and the FBI failed to share the information, even after reforms enacted to prevent information-hoarding following the 11 September 2001 attacks.
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