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Originally Posted by T@T
For some reason people seem to think Russia is the root of all evil and will do anything to get their way. To me it seems their leaders protect their own as much as anyone in the world.
Zero chance they would blow up their own innocent citizens like this for any reason.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...scow-bombings/
It's happened before. I don't put it past Russia at all. It's how Putin secured power in the first place.
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In 2000 Sergei Kovalev, then the widely respected head of the Russian organization Memorial, observed in these pages that the apartment bombings in Russia in September 1999, which killed three hundred people and wounded hundreds of others, “were a crucial moment in the unfolding of our current history.
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The bombings, it will be recalled, were blamed on Chechen rebels and used as a pretext for Boris Yeltsin’s Kremlin to launch a bloody second war against Chechnya, a republic in the Russian Federation. They also were crucial events in promoting Vladimir Putin’s takeover of the Russian presidency as Yeltsin’s anointed successor in 2000 and in ensuring his dominance over the Russian political scene ever since.
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The evidence he provides makes an overwhelming case that Russian authorities were complicit in these horrific attacks.2
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