Blowing up Russia: Terror from within

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Blowing up Russia: Terror from within (Russian: ФСБ взрывает Россию) is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky in 2002 about September 1999 campaign of Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts that have been allegedly committed by Russian State Security Services to justify Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. Later Geoffrey Andrews helped the authors to translate the book into English. The book was sponsored by Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky after his exile from Russia^{[citation needed]}.

On December 29, 2003, Russian Interior Ministry and FSB units arrested 4,376 copies of the book printed in Latvia and purchased by Soviet-era political dissident and prisoner Alexander Podrabinek's Prima information agency, which had passed customs control and were being trucked from Latvia to Moscow for retail delivery [1]. Later it was made clear that the action had been sanctioned during the investigation of divulging state secrets initiated in June 2003. [2] Prodrabinek was summoned by the FSB to come for interrogation on January 28, 2004, but refused to answer the questions.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] The book is copyright free [3].

1 Comments about the book
2 The book
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Comments about the book

"The story of the apartment blocks explosions will haunt Putin the way the image of the killed Tsarevich haunted Boris Godunov", said Alexander Goldfarb, the executive director of International Foundation for Civil Liberties [4].

[edit] The book

Yuri Felshtinsky, Alexander Litvinenko, and Geoffrey Andrews. Blowing up Russia: Terror from within. Moscow 2004. Second edition with a new foreword by Yuri Felshtinsky: Gibson Square Books, London, 2007. ISBN 978-1903933954.
Юрий Фельштинский, Александр Литвиненко ФСБ ВЗРЫВАЕТ РОССИЮ 2002 (Full text in Russian)