E-Books →The Moscow Bombings of September 1999 Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin's Rule Ed 2

The five chapters are devoted to:
* The intense political struggle taking place in Russia between May and August of 1999, culminating in an incursion by armed Islamic separatists into the Republic of Dagestan.
* Two Moscow terrorist bombings of 9 and 13 September 1999, claiming the lives of 224 Muscovites and preparing the psychological and political ground for a full-blown invasion of Chechnya.
* The so-called Ryazan Incident of 22 September 1999, when eyewitnesses observed officers of the Fsb special forces placing a live bomb in the basement of an apartment building in the town of Rzayan.
* The detonation of a powerful truck bomb outside of an apartment house in Buinaksk, Dagestan, on 4 September 1999, which took the lives of fifty-eight innocent victims.
* The explosion on 16 September 1999 of a truck bomb in the city of Volgdonsk in southern Russia, which killed eighteen persons and seriously wounded eighty-nine
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