None Dare Call It a Conspiracy • Who was behind the Moscow apartment bombings that accelerated Vladimir Putin's rise to power?

None Dare Call It a Conspiracy

The first building to be hit was the barracks in Buynaksk housing Russian soldiers and their families. It was a nondescript five-story building perched on the outskirts of town, and when the enormous truck bomb went off late on the night of September 4, 1999, the floors pancaked onto each other until the building was reduced to a pile of burning rubble.

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