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Originally Posted by northcrunk
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This is a popular theory in Russia, among Putin haters. However, it is almost like suggest that Putin was the man behind Ukrainian coup so he could annex Crimea.
While I am by no means Putin's defender, but those 1999 Moscow bombings - I was 18 at that time - were by no means proven to be Putin's actions, nor it was proven otherwise. The main argument for Putin's guilt is that his rating really went from like 10% to like 80%. However, this doesn't exactly mean that the bombing was set-up. One certain thing is that Putin made the most out of it.
All the investigations performed by people like Kovalev were sponsored by Putin's political opponents, such as Boris Berezovsky. Several people, who were particularly determined in either getting to the bottom of the story or trying to pin it on Putin were killed. However, those people were agents of Putin's political opponents and while Putin clearly had no problem shooting down his opponents, it has yet to prove that he was the mastermind behind the bombings.
However, there was undeniable presence of actual terrorists in Chechnya at that time and there were certain terrosits actions, such as Beslan and Nord-Ost hostage standoff, that were undertaken by real terrorists, both before and after Moscow bombings.