Russian apartment bombings 1999

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Russians (and Iranians, North Koreans, maybe Chinese too) are baddies. Britons, Americans and some others are goodies.

Those outraged that those awful Russkies have violated Ukraine's sovereignty have nothing to say about the Yank army continuing to occupy a part of Syria's territory to steal their oil, and much closer to home they won't like reminding Blighty's forces have taken root in the island of Ireland for many centuries.

what do you think about the 1999 apartment bombings organ Morgan?

[Organ Morgan.]

what do you think about the 1999 apartment bombings organ Morgan?

Nothing whatsoever. It would have been handy had you provided a link or some info related to your query.

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Nothing whatsoever. It would have been handy had you provided a link or some info related to your query.

certainly still a smouldering question

""" One month after explosion "" then-President Boris Yeltsin plucked a security agency official named Vladimir Putin from obscurity and made him prime minister, an explosion leveled a nine-story apartment building on Moscow’s outskirts.

The predawn blast on September 9, 1999, reduced the building to a smoking pile of rubble, killing more than 100. A second building, less than 6 kilometers away, was rocked by an explosion on September 13, killing 119.

Days earlier, a car bomb exploded in a small town bordering the war-ravaged region of Chechnya, where reignited fighting was already spilling into neighboring regions. That blast, outside the apartment building in the town of Buynaksk, killed dozens.

It was followed seven days later by a truck bomb that destroyed a nine-story building in another southern city, Volgodonsk, killing 17.

On September 23, Putin asserted terrorists in Chechnya were to blame and ordered a massive air campaign within the North Caucasus region. When asked a day later about the campaign targeting what he called terrorists, Putin responded with the phrase that inaugurated his rise to preeminence.

“We will pursue them everywhere,” he said, using a crude slang expression. “Excuse me for saying so: We’ll catch them in the toilet. We’ll wipe them out in the outhouse.”

The statement became a Putin catchphrase, and set the tone for the 20 years of rule that followed.

“Yes, it’s one of Putin’s original sins,” said Sergei Kovalyov, a former lawmaker and rights activist who headed a commission that investigated the bombings in the early 2000s.

The bombings, and the fear they provoked, “were advantageous,” he told RFE/RL. “At the time, it was advantageous for him to take control of the country, and to introduce force into the Caucasus, in Chechnya in particular.”

Yeltsin and his officials had already endorsed Putin, who was tapped a year earlier to head the country’s main security and intelligence agency, the FSB, and also served as secretary of the Security Council. ""

https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-russia.../30097551.html

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Nothing whatsoever. It would have been handy had you provided a link or some info related to your query.

do your own Research

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do your own Research

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do your own Research

seriously though it isn't hard to read up about it

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seriously though it isn't hard to read up about it

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