List of people allegedly involved in Russian apartment bombings

The Russian apartment bombings were a series of five bombings in Russia that took place in Moscow and two other Russian towns during ten days of September 1999. Altogether nearly 300 civilians were killed at night. The bombings, together with the Dagestan War, led the country into the Second Chechen War. Chechen militants were blamed but no Chechen field commander accepted responsibility for the bombings and Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov denied any involvement of his government.

The bombings ceased when a similar bomb was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on September 23. Later in the evening Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the Ryzanians and ordered the air bombing of Grozny, which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War.[1] A few hours later, three FSB agents who had planted the bomb were caught by the local police. This incident was declared to be a training exercise by FSB director Nikolai Patrushev.

Russian Parliament member Yuri Shchekochikhin filed two motions for a parliamentary investigation of the events, but the motions were rejected by the Russian Duma in March 2000. An independent[2] public commission to investigate the bombings chaired by Duma deputy Sergei Kovalev was hampered by government refusal to respond to its inquiries, and its chairmen admitted that he has no evidence to support any version of the events.[3][4] Two key members of the Kovalev Commission, Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, both Duma members, have since died in apparent assassinations. The Commission's lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin was arrested.

A number of people were convicted or accused of involvement in the bombings.

Official suspects

According to official investigation, the following people either delivered explosives, stored them, or harbored other suspects:

Arab-born Mujahid Ibn al-Khattab who was killed by the FSB in 2002.

Moscow bombings

Volgodonsk bombing

Buinaksk bombing

Suspects according to the FSB involvement theory

The suspicious events led to allegations that the bombings were in fact a "false flag" attack perpetrated by the FSB in order to legitimize the resumption of military activities in Chechnya and bring Vladimir Putin and the FSB to power, as described in books by David Satter,[26][27] Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky,[28] and by Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya, who were both assassinated.[29]

According to alternative version, the following suspects have been involved:[28]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Alex Goldfarb, with Marina Litvinenko Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB, The Free Press, 2007, ISBN 1-4165-5165-4
  2. Russian Federation: Amnesty International's concerns and recommendations in the case of Mikhail Trepashkin - Amnesty International
  3. http://mn.ru/issue.php?2003-35-30
  4. Радиостанция "Эхо Москвы" / Передачи / Интервью / Четверг, 25.07.2002: Сергей Ковалев
  5. 1 2 ACHIMEZ GOCHIYAYEV: RUSSIA’S TERRORIST ENIGMA RETURNS
  6. Gochiyayev's wanted page on FSB web site.
  7. Russia: Grasping the Reality of Nuclear Terror
  8. Putin’s defense sector appointees
  9. 1 2 3 4 Only one explosions suspect still free, Kommersant, December 10, 2002.
  10. Karachayev terrorists found in the morgue, Kommersant, June 8, 2004.
  11. Процесс о взрывах жилых домов: адвокат Адама Деккушева просит его полного оправдания
  12. 1 2 Court starts hearings into 'hexogen case'
  13. http://eng.terror99.ru/publications/094.htm Separatists Tied to '99 Bombings.
  14. 1 2 Two life sentences for 246 murders, Kommersant, January 13, 2004.
  15. A terrorist has imprisoned a policeman, Kommersant, May 15, 2003.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ПРИЧАСТНЫЕ К ВЗРЫВАМ В МОСКВЕ УСТАНОВЛЕНЫ
  17. NEWS FROM RUSSIA",Vol.VI, Issue No.18, dated 1st May 2003
  18. 1 2 3 Disrupting Escalation of Terror in Russia to Prevent Catastrophic Attacks
  19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Buinaksk terrorists sentenced to life, Kommersant, March 20, 2001.
  20. Suspect in 1999 Buinaksk bombing brought to Russia
  21. Jury acquitted a Buinaksk suspect, Lenta.Ru, 2006 Jan 24.
  22. Jury acquitted a Buinaksk suspect again, Lenta.Ru, 2006 November 13.
  23. Khattab said: Your task is small, Kommersant, November 13, 2006.
  24. One More Participant of Terrorist Act in Buinaksk, Dagestan, Detained in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan
  25. They should be blown up, not put on trial, Kommersant, April 10, 2002.
  26. David Satter - House committee on Foreign Affairs
  27. David Satter. Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Yale University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-300-09892-8.
  28. 1 2 Vladimir Pribylovsky and Yuri Felshtinsky) The Age of Assassins. The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin, Gibson Square Books, London, 2008, ISBN 1-906142-07-6;
  29. Tegenlicht documentary VPRO 2007, In Memoriam Aleksander Litvinenko, Jos de Putter, Moscow 2004 Interview with Anna Politkovskaya.
  30. Адмирал ФСБ - Дух воинский - Православное воинство - РУССКОЕ ВОСКРЕСЕНИЕ; ?>
  31. Johnson's Russia List #5054 - January 27, 2001
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