Blowing up Russia: Terror from within
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Blowing up Russia: Terror from within (Russian: ФСБ взрывает Россию) is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky. In the book, Litvinenko and Felshtinsky allege that the Russian apartment bombings and other terrorist acts in September 1999 attributed to Chechen separatists were in fact committed by the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian Federation's domestic security and intelligence agency. Litvinenko and Felshtinsky wrote that the bombings were a false flag operation intended to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. Later Geoffrey Andrews helped the authors to translate the book into English. The book was sponsored by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky after his exile from Russia.
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[edit] Campaign by Russian government against the book and its authors
Unsuccessful in finding a publisher for the book, they printed an early draft in Russian for would-be publication in Moscow in 2004. On December 29, 2003, Russian Interior Ministry and FSB units seized 4,376 copies of the book printed in Latvia and purchased by Soviet-era political dissident and prisoner Alexander Podrabinek's Prima news agency, which had passed customs control and were being trucked from Latvia to Moscow for retail delivery [1]. Later it was made clear that the action had been sanctioned during the investigation of divulging state secrets initiated in June 2003. [2] Prodrabinek was summoned by the FSB to come for interrogation on January 28, 2004, but refused to answer the questions.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
On November 1, 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalised. He died three weeks later, becoming the first known victim of lethal acute radiation syndrome induced by polonium-210. Andrei Lugovoi and other Russian agents are thought to be responsible for the Litvinenko poisoning.
Investigator Mikhail Trepashkin said that according to his FSB sources, "everyone who was involved in publication of the book Blowing up Russia will be killed," and that three FSB agents have made a trip to Boston to prepare the assassination of Yuri Felshtinsky.[8]
[edit] Reviews
"The story of the apartment blocks explosions will haunt Putin the way the image of the killed Tsarevich haunted Boris Godunov" (Alexander Goldfarb, the executive director of International Foundation for Civil Liberties) [3].
[edit] The book
- Yuri Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko, and Geoffrey Andrews. Gibson Square Books, London, 2007. ISBN 978-1903933954 (freely available as a PDF file).
[edit] Media
- Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror Live interview by historian Yuri Felshtinsky about the book, Aleksander Litvinenko and situation in Russia at C-SPAN
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Гостайну не выдал by Orhan Cemal, Novaya gazeta, January 29, 2004.
- ^ FSB summons activist editor for questioning, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 28, 2004.
- ^ Kremlin threatens human rights activist by Lawrence Uzzell, Chechnya Weekly, Jamestown Foundation, [[February 4, 2004.
- ^ Правозащитника Александра Подрабинека вызвали на допрос в ФСБ, Lenta.ru, January 27, 2004.
- ^ ФСБ: В книге "ФСБ взрывает Россию" разглашена гостайна, Grani.ru, January 28, 2004.
- ^ ФСБ и милиция арестовали тираж книги "ФСБ взрывает Россию", Lenta.ru, December 29, 2003.
- ^ ФСБ задержала тираж книги "ФСБ взрывает Россию", Grani.ru, December 29, 2003.
- ^ http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2007/12/01/20071201143422327.html Interview with Mikhail Trepashkin], RFE/RL, December 1, 2007. Russian "все, кто причастен к выпуску книги «ФСБ взрывает Россию», будут уничтожены, и что выехала в Штаты группа из трех человек, сотрудников федеральной службы безопасности ... по месту жительства Фельштинского в город Бостон."
