Timeline
182 records found
- 1977
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Jan. 8 -
Moscow Bombings - 3 explosions blamed on Armenian nationalists. Sakharov suspected KGB provocation
3 Armenians were convicted & executed after a secret trial. Later emerged at least one of them had a cast-iron alibi. Sakharov & others thought the bombings were a provocation to discredit the emerging Human Rights movement.
- 1989
- Aug. 19 - USSR admits secret clause of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- 1990
- April 13 - USSR admits Katyn Massacre undertaken by NKVD
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Aug. 5 -
Yeltsin urges Soviet Republics to "Take as much sovereignty as you can swallow"
In an election speech in Kazan, Tatarstan, Following this statements various Republics, notably Chechnya, follow his advice
- 1991
- Aug. 19 - KGB Hardliners attempt coup in Russia, Gorbachev taken prisoner
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Aug. 24 -
Ukraine declares Independence
On the same day, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passed a Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, calling for a national referendum on the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
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Sept. 6 -
Chechnya declares Independence
Dzhokhar Dudayev wins 1st elections a month later
- Nov. 6 - Yeltsin outlaws all Communist Party activities in Russia - end of KGB oversight
- Nov. 14 - Yeltsin dissolves Russian KGB following coup
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Dec. 8 -
Belovezha Accords - USSR dissolved
Leaders of Russian, Ukrainian & Belarus soviet republics declare the USSR finished, behind Gen Sec Gorbachev's back
- Dec. 12 - Russian Soviet declares Russia an independent state
- Dec. 14 - SVR created from KGB 1st Directorate. FAPS created from KGB 8th & 16th Directorate (comms)
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Dec. 25 -
Gorbachev Resigns
December 25, Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union – or, as he put it, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the USSR."
- 1992
- Jan. 15 - Ministry of Security created, taking over KGB internal & border security roles
- April 22 - Putin, as deputy mayor St Petersburg, helps Berezovsky with car deal. Become friends.
- 1993
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Oct. 4 -
Yeltsin orders tanks to shell the Moscow White House
Bloody conflict between the President and the Russian legislature results in greatly increased powers for the Presidency
- Dec. 21 - Ministry of Security reorganised as FSK, headed by Sergei Stepashin, later renamed FSB
- 1994
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Nov. 18 -
Moscow railway bridge bombed. Bomber died - FSB officer
Captain Andrey Shchelenkov. employee of Maz Lazovsky's firm
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Dec. 1 -
Moscow trolleybus bombing - link to FSB, Lazovsky
Colonel Vladimir Vorobyev, associate of Max Lazovsky
- Dec. 11 - Russian invades Grozny starting 1st Chechen War
- 1996
- April 21 - Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen President, assassinated whilst talking to Konstantin Borovoi on sat phone
- Aug. 22 - 1st Chechen War ends with Khasavyurt Accord
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Sept. 4 -
Max Lazovsky arrested by Vladimir Tskhai, for minor offences
Sentenced for minor weapons offences, released after 2 years
- 1997
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April 12 -
Policeman Vladimir Tskhai, who uncovered Lazovksy/FSB/gangs, dies - probably poisoned
Was investigating Max Lazovsky gang that had carried out earlier bombings. From Blowing Up Russia: "On April 12 1997 at the age of 39 Tskhai died suddenly from cirrhosis of the liver, although he didn’t drink or smoke. Presumably he was poisoned by the FSB because he had discovered the identities of the true leaders of Lazovsky’s group and realized exactly who had organized the explosions in Moscow. "
- 1998
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July 4 -
Lev Rokhlin, Army General (ret.), Yeltsin critic, assassinated
Murder initially blamed on wife but 3 burned corpses found near Rokhlin's home. FSB General Trofimov and Litvinenko agreed with many of Rokhlin's colleagues that his killing was orchestrated by the FSB and the assassins were subsequently killed. Apparently motivation for Litvinenko & team to whistle blow in 98 when given order to undertake killings - ie they realised if they started down the road of extra-legal killings they would likely become victims themselves.
- July 16 - Chechen government outlaws Wahhabism
- July 25 - Putin appointed head of the FSB
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July 25 -
Russia adopts new anti-terrorism law permitting the Army to operate within Russia
In the first Chechen War, Yeltsin was impeached for using the Army inside Russia, against the constitution. "Federal Law No. 130-FZ of July 25, 1998 on the Struggle against Terrorism" removed that constraint
- Aug. 24 - Journalist Anatoly Levin-Utkin beaten to death after research Putin FSB story
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Oct. 22 -
Alexander Tikhonov appointed head of FSB counter terrorism, Alpha and B (Vympel)
The Ryazan training exercise was supposedly a Vympel training operation https://www.spisok-putina.org/en/personas/tikhonov/
- Nov. 20 - Galina Starovoytova, liberal politician & campaigner, assassinated.
- 1999
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March 19 -
Bombing of market in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, kills 70
Worst terrorist bombing in Russia since Perestroika
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April 1 -
Russian Prosecutor Skuratov raids Mabetex over Yeltsin corruption, Putin releases prostitutes video
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/apr/03/jamesmeek
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April 8 -
Russian Prosecutor General Skuratov issues arrest warrant for Berezovsky on Aeroflot corruption cha
Russian Prosecutor General Skuratov issues arrest warrant for Berezovsky on Aeroflot corruption charges. Aeroflot linked to SVR, headed by Primakov
- May 13 - Prime Minister Primakov fired, replaced by Sergei Stepashin
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June 10 -
Swedish & Italian journalists publish articles predicting "State Terror" in Russia within months
Jan Blomgren of the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Giulietto Chiesa of La Stampa write that there will be acts of “state terrorism” occuring in coming months in Russia
- July 15 - Berezovsky visits Putin in Biarritz to offer Prime Minister's job
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July 22 -
Moskovskaya Pravda publishes "Storm in Moscow" predicting bombings
Aleksandr Zhilin writing in Moskovskaya pravda claimed there would terror attacks in Moscow aiming to undermine Yeltsin opponent and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Warnings were passed to Moscow Deputy Mayor Yastrzhembskii. Source identified as Sergei Zverev, deputy head of Presidential Administration.
- Aug. 1 - First border clashes between Chechnya & Dagestan
- Aug. 7 - Wahhabist militia invade Dagestan from Chechnya, allegedly with connivance of Berezovsky
- Aug. 9 - Putin appointed Prime Minister, Stepashin Resigns
- Aug. 9 - Patrushev appointed head of the FSB
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Aug. 16 -
Duma confirms Putin as PM with smallest vote in history
Putin won 232 votes of the 450 seat Duma, needing 226 to win. Without the 18 votes from the liberal Yabloko party he would have lost.
- Aug. 25 - Russian begins limited airstrikes inside Chechnya
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Aug. 28 -
Yeltsin orders creation of new anti-terrorism FSB Department - disrupting existing functions
Journalist Alexander Khinshtein wrote in Moskovy Komsomolets "this means to paralyse all work for at least two months. Is this wrecking? Is it treason?"
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Aug. 31 8 p.m. -
Moscow shopping centre bombing kills 1, injures 30-40
Moscow shopping centre bombing kills 1, injures 30-40, "Okhotny Ryad" shopping mall on Manezhnaya Square
- Sept. 4 10 p.m. - Buynansk, Dagestan, apartment bombing kills 64
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Sept. 8 noon -
Novaya Gazeta receives phone call warning of bombings
Novaya Gazeta receives phone call for Major Izmaylov, Army / Chechnya expert for NV who helped with prisoner exchanges, from Alexander Kapanadze, Russian NCO captured in Chechnya. Kapanadze warns of 10 planned bombings
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Sept. 9 -
Konstantin Borovoy, member of Duma, warned by GRU that bombings were to take place in Moscow. Passe
Konstantin Borovoy, member of Duma, warned by GRU that bombings were to take place in Moscow. Passed information to FSB Moscow but ignored.
- Sept. 9 12:30 a.m. - Moscow apartment bombing kills 106 people. Guryanova Street. Just after midnight
- Sept. 10 - Moscow authorities announce Hexogen/RDX + TNT traces found at Guryanova
- Sept. 10 - Putin flies to New Zealand for APEC Summit
- Sept. 10 - Someone named "Tatyana Koroleva" arrested in Ryazan for defacing her passport
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Sept. 12 -
Wahhabist insurgents forces pushed out of Dagestan
Mairbeck Vatchageav (In Chechen government at the time) says most of of the insurgents were Dagestani, not Chechen.
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Sept. 13 -
Newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets writes that special services likely behind the explosives
Quoting sources *inside* the FSB they say that current or ex special services agent conducting the bombing on Guryanov as evidence by huge quantities of explosives and professional execution.
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Sept. 13 5 a.m. -
Moscow, Kashirskoye Highway apartment bombing, kills 119 people.
Moscow, Kashirskoye Highway apartment bombing, kills 119 people
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Sept. 13 11 a.m. -
Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov announces Volgodonsk bomb 3 days early
Russian Duma speaker Gennadiy Seleznyov announces, "I have just received a report. An apartment building in the city of Volgodonsk was blown up last night." At this moment Seleznyov was employing Alexander Dugin as "geopolitics advisor".
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Sept. 13 5 p.m. -
After tip-off, Police find further bombs in Moscow - Borisovskie Prudy and Kapotnya
Someone claiming to be Gochiyayev told Litvinenko that he warned the police.
- Sept. 14 - Putin says FSB sure Osama bin Laden behind the bombings
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Sept. 14 -
FSB announces another bomb discovered in Borisovskie Prudy, Moscow
https://lenta.ru/news/1999/09/14/explosive/
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Sept. 14 -
Putin leaves NZ early to deal with bombings
TV interview Auckland: "you can't call them people. If they are beasts they are rabid"
- Sept. 15 - Vladimir Kozlov, Head of MVD, confirms explosives were industrial (ie Hexogen/RKD)
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Sept. 15 -
Moskovskij Komsomolets writes "almost 100% certainty" bombings done by professionals.
Postulated that it was former members of the Russian special services.
- Sept. 16 5:57 a.m. - Volgodonsk apartment bombing kills 17 people.
- Sept. 17 - Zhirinovsky attacks Seleznyov in Duma - asking how he knew about Volgodonsk before it happened
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Sept. 20 -
Newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets claims to have prevented 3rd Moscow Bombing
Moskovskij Komsomolets claimed it received warning of a bombing and warned police on the 15th. On the 17th, following this lead, the police found sacks of Hexogen in a basement on Butyrskii Val, northern Moscow. Thus saving 800 lives. John Dunlop says no follow-up to this story. Suggests a gov fake to impress public that police was doing something.
- Sept. 22 - Beginning of full air bombardment against Chechnya
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Sept. 22 11 p.m. -
Ryazan. Local resident calls police - suspect activity in basement
Ryazan. Kartofelnikov reports sacks being carried to basement. Police arrive & evacuate buildings
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Sept. 23 -
Journalist Rimma Akhirimova of KP threatened by FSB when investigating Chechen suspects
She went to find relatives of Denis Saitakov, a Chechen accused by police of involvement in the bombings. She found herself arrested and threatened in Kazan (Tartarstan capital)
- Sept. 23 5 a.m. - Radio Rossiya announces bomb. Ryazan in full lock-down.
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Sept. 23 6 p.m. -
Telephone operator in Ryazan overhears conversation between bombers, number traced to FSB
Telephone operator Nadezhda Yukhanova in Ryazan reports overhearing conversation between bombers, number traced to FSB. Callers traced, arrested, produces FSB ID, released.
- Sept. 23 7 p.m. - Putin announces bombing successfully foiled. Praises residents. Call for invasion of Chechnya
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Sept. 24 noon -
Patrushev tells NTV journalist Nikolaev that Ryazan incident was a training exercise.
Interior minister Rushailo had just announce triumph by police in preventing bombing - he was surprised & angry by Patrushev announcemtn. FSB Ryazan furious.
- Sept. 25 - Nezavisimaya Gazeta paper explicitly accuses Yelstin, Putin & FSB of bombings, in detail
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Oct. 1 -
Putin announces land invasion of Chechnya
The Chechen conflict entered a new phase on 1 October 1999, when Russia's new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin declared the authority of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his parliament illegitimate
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Oct. 3 -
GRU officer Alexei Galkin captured in Chechnya
Galkin subsequently gave an interview where he stated the FSB was behind the bombings. Possible that this was coerced but journalists present thought not. Novaya Gazeta subsequently published his statements. Galkin later retracted claiming torture. Later a film was made "Countdown" or "Личный номер" which fictionalised his story - Abromovich funded it, seen as propoganda cover up.
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Dec. 19 -
Duma elections. New, pro-Putin party Unity, backed by Berezovsky, wins 23% with B's ORT TV support.
Duma elections. New, pro-Putin party Unity, backed by Berezovsky, wins 23% with B's ORT TV support. Berezovsky elected as Duma deputy
- 2000
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Feb. 19 -
Suspicious death of Anatoly Sobchak, ex Mayor of St Petersburg & Putin's 1st political sponsor
Allegedly heart attack, but his wife ordered independent autopsy which didn't find signs of heart attack. Reports that his bodyguards were treated for poisoning. Sobchak knew much about Putin's time in St Petersburg.
- Feb. 20 - Nikolai Spirin, Lazovsky's driver, murdered
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March 9 -
Artyom Borovik, TV star journalist researching bombings, dies in private plane crash
He was preparing a TV show 1999 bombings & Putin's childhood. Was flying on private jet to Kyiv with Chechen oil industry executive Ziya Bazhayev. Very high profile, respected journalist, son of start Soviet journalist.
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March 10 -
Tony Blair attends St Petersburg Ballet with Putin
Was his help significant in reconciling Russian public to KGB guy?
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March 12 -
Novaya Gazeta story of a soldier, Alexei Pinyaev, that mistook guarded Hexogen for Sugar
Novaya Gazeta journalist Pavel Voloshin publishes story of a soldier, Alexei Pinyaev, that took some powder from a sack marked "Sugar", added it to tea, tasted dreadful, reported it, his unit assessed as Hexogen. Voloshin subseqently retracted.
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March 15 3 p.m. -
Novaya Gazeta hacked, issue following Pinyaev hexogen story destroyed
Publication delayed
- March 16 - FSB deputy Alexander Shagako states that the bombings used aluminium nitrate, not Hexogen
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March 21 -
Duma deputy Yury Shchekochikhin proposes motion for an investigation of Ryazan.
Motion passes 197 to 137 but requires 226 for approval. In hindsight, extraordinary that 40% of Duma deputies wanted an investigation
- March 22 - Retired KGB Vympel officers press conference validating FSB version of Ryazan as training exercise
- March 24 - Russian TV station NTV hosts TV debate where Ryazan residents confront FSB
- March 26 - Putin wins Presidential Election with 53% of vote
- April 4 - Duma rejects 2nd call for investigation of bombings. Later orders all files sealed for 75 years
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April 28 -
Maxim Lazovsky, FSB officer accused by Litvinenko of orchestrating 1999 bombing, is shot
Maxim Lazovsky, FSB officer accused by Litvinenko of orchestrating 1999 bombing, is shot. Also linked to 1994 Moscow bombings
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July 20 -
Gusinsky signs "Shares for Freedom" agreement to sell NTV shares
In a surprisingly informal deal, the charges against Gusinsky were lifted after he signed an agreement with Mikhail Lesin, Minister of Media, on 20 July. After leaving the country, Gusinsky claimed he was pressured to sign the agreement by the prospect of the criminal investigation. Media-Most refused to comply with the agreement. Tax authorities brought a suit against Media-Most aiming to wind it up.
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Aug. 1 -
Vladimir Romanovich, possible bomber, reported to have died in hit & run in Cyprus.
Identified by Mikhail Trepashkin from the original photofit of the guy who rented the basement for a bombing. Ex FSB & gangster. Apparently died. - But Cyprus death certificate shows 30/04/1998 - Appears in Panama Papers: https://panama.data2www.com/o/115735
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Aug. 8 -
Bombing at Pushkin metro station Moscow, 17 dead
Chechens blamed, case remains unsolved.
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Aug. 12 -
Kursk submarine sinks
PR disaster for Putin, convinces him that independent TV is a really bad idea
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Sept. 21 -
Fake letter from Ryazan residents condemning NTV "Ryazan Sugar" film
Newspaper Obshchaya Gazeta published a letter signed by residents of the Ryazan block condemning the NTV program and praising the FSB. NTV journalists travelled to Ryazan and asked the signatories about the letter - they denied signing it. Novaya Gazeta compared the incident to the Soviet practice of publishing fake "letters from working paper" to support the regime.
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Sept. 21 -
Iskandar Khatloni, Journalist, Murdered (Chechnya reporting)
Tajik journalist working for RFE/RL, was reporting on human rights in Chechnya. Murdered with an axe in Moscow
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Oct. 15 -
Italian Journalist Antonio Russo murdered in Georgia
He'd been covering Chechen war and was planning to research Vera Putina story.
- 2001
- March 18 - Gennady Gudkov elected to Duma
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April 14 -
Gazprom takes over NTV by force
On 14 April 2001, Gazprom took over NTV by force and brought in its own management team. Its director-general Yevgeniy Kiselyov was replaced by Boris Jordan. Many leading journalists, including Yevgeniy Kiselyov, Svetlana Sorokina, Viktor Shenderovich, Vladimir A. Kara-Murza, Dmitry Dibrov, left the company. Leonid Parfyonov and Tatyana Mitkova remained. Kiselyov's Itogi program was closed down, replaced by Parfyonov's Namedni.
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May 1 -
German Ugryumov, FSB Counter Terrorism Chief, dies - rumours of suicide/assasination.
Krymshamkhalov wrote to Novaya Gazeta that Ugryumov arranged the bombings. Grigory Pasko, ex-Navy human rights & environmental journalist, wrote that Ugryumov had probably been murdered, a version corroborated by anonymous FSB whistle-blowers. A widely circulated but unverified comment on a blog states that Ruslan Saidov quoted Ugryumov as saying: "We had to blow up buildings to get him into the Kremlin. How much blood will it take to remove him?" This is the profile page for Saidov: http://www.pravo.mgimo.ru/?q=node/11181
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June 17 -
George Bush looks in Putin's eyes and gets a sense of his soull
Slovenia Summit At the closing press conference, in response to a question about whether he could trust Putin, Bush said, "I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy – I was able to get a sense of his soul." Bush's top security aide Condoleezza Rice later wrote that Bush's phrasing had been a serious mistake. "We were never able to escape the perception that the president had naïvely trusted Putin and then been betrayed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia_Summit_2001
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Sept. 9 -
Putin tells Bush Ahmad Shah Massoud assassinated
Leader of opposition to Taliban in Afghanistan
- Sept. 12 - Putin phones Bush after 9-11 -Solidarity in War on Terror
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Dec. 20 -
Pinyaev retracts his story about hexogen/sugar in his tea
FSB Ryazan Press Conference On the eve of the professional holiday, the head of the department, Major General Oleg Mikhailovich Dukanov, told reporters about the results of the work of the FSB Directorate for the Ryazan Region for the year. Serviceman A.N. Pinyaev, who allegedly told the "truth" to a Novaya Gazeta journalist, said that the 137th Airborne Regiment had no warehouses of hexogen at its disposal. In December 1999, he was admitted to the hospital and was never seen again at the training ground. https://web.archive.org/web/20110131045636/http://rv.ryazan.ru/old/cgi-bin/main-n%3D1244%26m%3D8.htm
- 2002
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Feb. 2 -
Sergei Kovalyov, Duma Deputy, opens public commission into the bombings
Duma deputy Sergei Kovalyov opens public commission into the bombings with Sergei Yushenkov, Yury Shchekochikhin, Otto Lacis and Mikail Trepashkin
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March 5 -
Screening Assassination of Russia, Litvinenko film about the bombings, attended by Sergei Yuschenko
Screening Assassination of Russia, Litvinenko film about the bombings, attended by Sergei Yuschenkov
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March 6 -
Nikita Chekulin claims his department provided Hexogen to FSB "anti-terrorism" department
Claim made at a press conference run by Berezovsky. Nikita Chekulin had been director of Moscow office that handled explosives. He left his job, and Russia, and got into Berezovsky's circle. Later volte-face to blame Berezovsky for Litvinenko's murder & the bombings.
- March 14 - Akhmed Zakayev address EU Parliament in Strasbourg
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March 20 -
Ibn al-Khattab, accussed of 1999 bombings, killed by FSB via poisoned letter
Khattab died of poisoning after a Dagestani messenger hired by the Russian FSB gave him a poisoned letter.
- April 2 - Duma rejects Yuschenkov proposal for 1999 Commission
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April 14 -
Russian opinion polls shows only 38% reject the theory of FSB involvement in the bomgings.
VTsIOM published the results of a public opinion poll: more than half were in favor of showing the film "Blowing up Russia" on television; 6 percent answered that they were sure that the FSB was involved, 37 percent said they did not rule it out, 38 percent did not admit the involvement of the authorities, and 16 percent were convinced that Chechens blew up the houses. About 40 percent of those surveyed agreed with the need for an independent investigation.
- April 19 - 2nd Duma Vote to create Commission rejected
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April 28 -
Alexander Lebed dies in helicopter crash
Lebed, a popular ex-army General, had previously stated he was almost convinced that the apartment bombings were an FSB provocation.
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May 14 -
Russian Prosecutor General's confirms FSB version of Ryazan
In response to a request from Duma Deputy Alexander Kulikov the Prosecutor General issues a report whitewashing the FSB's version of events in Ryazan. Dunlop p208
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June 6 -
Russian Magazine/website "Top Secret" publishes elaborate counter narrative for Ryazan
The author claims to have access to inside document for the FSB "training operation" in Ryazan. Describes a light-hearted breezy operation by some good chaps. Explains away awkward questions such as why was a stolen car used - "It was Petr's car!"
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July 1 -
Russia introduces Federal Law on Combating Extremist Activity
Framework for banning books etc used to convict Navalny 2021 https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-anti-extremism-law-blunt-instrument-navalnu-jehovahs-witnesses/31230149.html
- Aug. 20 - Politician Vladimir Golovlyov assassinated (Yushenkov ally)
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Oct. 23 -
Nord Ost Theatre Siege
Chechens take theatre audience hostage. Siege ensues. Everyone gassed. Chechens shot, but some disappeared. Lots of civilians dead. Suspect FSB involvement to shift international opinion against Chechnya
- Oct. 26 - Dubrovka Theatre, Nord-Ost Storming
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Oct. 30 -
Akhmed Zakayev arrested in Denmark
Putin's plan to cast Chechens as terrorists pays off
- 2003
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April 17 -
Sergei Yushenkov, chair of Duma Bombings Commission, shot in Moscow
Kovalev took over as chair
- June 3 - Andrei Mironov, prominent liberal journal, assaulted at home
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June 24 -
Putin visits Queen on state visit to UK
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/28895
- July 3 - Yury Shchekochikhin murdered by poisoning. Medical details classified by government
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Aug. 1 -
Bombing in Mozdok (Chechnya) kills 53, Baseev claims responsibility
Unlike 1999 bombings, where nobody claimed responsibility.
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Oct. 22 -
MIkhail Trepashkin, victim's lawyer, arrested
The day before the trial of the Chechen accused where he could have introduced evidence regarding the mis-identification of the person who rented the basement - Gochiayev vs Vladimir Romanovich
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Oct. 31 -
Trial of bombing suspects Krymshamkhalov and Dekkushev begins
Trepashkin cannot submit evidence about Gochiyaev / Romanovich because he's been arrested
- Nov. 4 - John McCain gives speech asserting FSB responsibility for the 1999 bombings
- Nov. 11 - Otto Lacis, member of Koyalyov's Bombing Commission,, beaten and hospitalised
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Dec. 5 -
Stavropol train bombing kills 41
Blamed on Chechens trying to destabilise situation before Duma elections
- 2004
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Jan. 12 -
Krymshamkhalov & Dekkushev sentence to life imprisonment for Moscow & Volgodonsk
Accused of being part of the gang that arranged the bombings. Only evidence produced related to them driving lorries which allegedly carried explosives.
- Feb. 6 - Suicide bombing at Avtozavodskaya metro, Moscow, kills 42
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Feb. 24 -
Trepashkin's wife, Tatanya, writes to Tony Blair asking that he refutes spying charges
https://www.rferl.org/a/1143106.html
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April 4 -
Nekrasov's Disbelief pulled from Chicago Film Festival
..citing complaints about the film from the Russian delegation:
- June 19 - Nikolai Girenko, Human Rights campaigner, assassinated in St Petersburg
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July 9 -
Paul Klebnikov assassinated
Had been undertaking extensive interviews with Chechen gangster/warlords. Authorities accused Chechens who where acquitted at closed trial. Case remains unsolved.
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Sept. 11 -
Roman Tsepov killed by polonium poisoning
Former St Petersburg business associate of Putin. Died after drinking tea at FSB headquarters.
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Dec. 1 -
Galkin film Countdown / Private Number released
Primarily released as Личный номер
- 2005
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April 10 -
Anatoly Trofimov, retired FSB General, head of investigations, assassinated
He claimed FSB connected to killing of Rokhlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Trofimov
- June 7 - Russia Today TV Station starts.
- 2006
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Jan. 1 -
Nikita Chekulin publishes book accusing Berezovsky of bombings
Nikita Chekulin was head of the Moscow MVD building, part of Lubyanka complex, that Novaya Gazeta jounalist Pavel Voloshin identified as the source of the Hexogen. He defected to London in 2001, took Berezovsky's largesse, friends with Litvinenko, then returned to Moscow and betrayed Berezovsky. Significant part of the process of smearning Berezovsky.
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Jan. 23 -
Nikita Chekulin retracts his statements about Hexogen
Interview given on Berezovsky's birthday. He says Alex Goldfarb, Berezovsky's associate, told him what to say. Also reveals that he had been secretly recording Berezovsky's conversations. "Moskovsky Komsomolets http://www.compromat.ru/page_18083.htm
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March 6 -
Russia passes "Counteration to Terrorism" law permitting extra-judicial killing
Federal Law No. 35-FZ of March 6, 2006 Adopted by the State Duma on February 26, 2006 Approved by the Council of the Federation on March 1, 2006 "On Counteraction to Terrorism" This Federal Law shall establish the fundamental principles of counteraction to terrorism, the legal and organizational basics of preventing terrorism and struggling against it, of reducing to a minimum and (or) liquidating the consequences of manifestations thereof, as well as the legal and organizational basics of using the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in struggling against terrorism. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6188658.stm
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June 8 -
Lebedev buys 39% of Novaya Gazeta
And Gorbachev 10%
- Oct. 7 - Anna Politkovskaya shot
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Oct. 30 -
Igor Ponomarev, Russian official, unexplained death at 41 after meeting Litvinenko
https://www.svoboda.org/a/1885663.html -Litvinenko was due to meet with Igor Ponomarev, Russia's representative to the International Maritime Organization. But he died suddenly of a heart attack on October 30, 2006. "Yes, Igor Ponomarev died, and he was probably killed. He died while at the London Opera. He said that he was thirsty, drank three bottles of water in a row, and then suddenly died. English doctors say that such thirst is a typical symptom of radioactive poisoning. It was impossible to perform an autopsy, since the Russian embassy immediately took Ponomarev's body, it was urgently delivered to Russia and cremated."
- Nov. 23 - Alexander Litvinenko dies from poisoning
- 2007
- Feb. 10 - Vladimir Putin’s Munich speech - statement of bullish foreign policy
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April 27 -
Estonia removes Soviet Statue in Tallinn
Russia retaliates with cyber attacks, road & rail blockages
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July 6 -
UK expels 4 Russian diplomats after Litvinenko poisoning
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jul/16/russia.politics
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July 14 -
Russia publishes "Federal list of extremist materials"
Initially 14 items. 5,000+ by 2022
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Oct. 26 -
Assassination attempt on Malik Saidullaev
6th anniversary of the storming of the Dubrovka theatre.
- 2008
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Aug. 1 -
Russian invades Georgia
Dates confused by air war, south ossetian forces
- 2009
- Jan. 19 - Stanslav Markelov, Human Rights lawyer, assassinated
- March 6 - Hilary Clinton announces Russia "Reset" in Geneva with Lavrov
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May 15 -
Commission to Counter Falsification of History to the Detriment of Russia
Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests The Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests (Russian: ) was a commission in the Russian Federation that was set up by a decree issued by president Dmitry Medvedev on 15 May 2009,[1] officially to "defend Russia against falsifiers of history and those who would deny Soviet contribution to the victory in World War II".[2] The commission was headed by Medvedev's Chief of staff Sergey Naryshkin. The decree establishing the commission was invalidated on 14 February 2012,[3] and the commission thus ceased to exist. The commission has been described as a further regress toward Soviet and Stalinist practices, glorifying the Soviet Union and its crimes.[4]
- July 15 - Natalia Estemirova, Human Rights activist & journalist, assassinated
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Sept. 13 -
10th Anniversary: Valentin Gefter writes about unsolved questions in Novaya Gazeta
Reviews case of the 199 bombings. Raises various questions especially about the person that rented the basement on Guryanov - the government accused Gochiyaev but Trepashkin recognised Romanovich - what happened to Romanovich?
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Sept. 27 -
Novaya Gazeta retracts story about Gochiyaev & Romanovich suspects. Apologises.
Apparent Romanovich's family complained & demanded a retraction of the claim that he might have been involved. But the story was originally Trepashkin's, told in 2003. Why did the family wait for 6 years to complain? Also apparently, "new" evidence showed that Romanovich died in Cyprus earlier, in 1998.
- 2012
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Dec. 24 -
Man jailed for Yushenkov's murder accuses Berezovsky
Mikhail Kodanev, who was convicted in 2004 for organizing the murder of State Duma deputy Sergei Yushenkov, stated that the real masterminds behind the crime were businessman Boris Berezovsky
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Dec. 29 -
Russian Military Historical Society established to counter distortion
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/30/the-kremlin-is-trying-to-whitewash-russias-stalinist-past-a67096 Indeed, the very raison d’etre of the RMHS, established by presidential decree in 2012, is “to consolidate the forces of the state and society in … countering attempts at distortion, ensure the popularization of the achievements of military-historical science, raising the prestige of military service and patriotic education.”
- 2013
- March 23 - Berezovsky found dead in Surrey, open verdict murder or suicide
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July 12 -
UK Government Refuses to open Litvinenko Inquiry
Admits "diplomacy a factor"
- 2014
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Jan. 29 -
Dozhd TV Station cancelled after running Leningrad Siege Polll
Dozhd ran a poll on its website and on live TV asking viewers if Leningrad should have been surrendered to the invading Nazi army in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives during the siege of Leningrad. Presenters cited Viktor Astafyev and compared it with the 1812 capture of vacant Moscow. Within 30 minutes, Dozhd removed the poll and apologized for incorrect wording. On 29 January, the largest Russian TV providers disconnected the channel. Dozhd was forced to move to a private apartment in October 2014. In November 2013, two months before the controversy, Dozhd broadcast a report by anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny investigating high-ranking officials including Vyacheslav Volodin. The channel's owner, Natalya Sindeyeva, suggested that the program caused the campaign against the channel.
- Feb. 11 - UK court overrules government decision not to hold Litvinenko inquiry
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Feb. 20 -
Russia annexes Crimea
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. Wikipedia Dates: Feb 20, 2014 – Mar 26, 2014
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May 1 -
Russia passes "Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism"
The law introduced Article 354.1 to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, making it a criminal offence "to deny facts recognised by the international military tribunal that judged and punished the major war criminals of the European Axis countries [this refers to the Nuremberg trials], to approve of the crimes this tribunal judged, and to spread intentionally false information about the Soviet Union’s activities during World War II" as well as "the spreading of information on military and memorial commemorative dates related to Russia’s defence that is clearly disrespectful of society, and to publicly desecrate symbols of Russia’s military glory".
- 2015
- Feb. 17 - Boris Nemtsov assassinated
- Sept. 15 - Russia begins military ops in Syria
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Nov. 5 -
Mikhail Lesin dies in Washington. Minister of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications in 1999
It is alleged that Lesin was killed before he could talk to US prosecutors about Russian propaganda efforts.
- 2016
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March 16 -
Russian State Archivist Mironenko fired for stating WW2 Panfilov based on myth
https://www.rferl.org/a/mironenko-state-archive-chief-removed-from-post-panfilov-legend/27619460.html
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Dec. 13 -
Gulag historian Yury Dmitriev arrested for alleged child porn
https://pen.org/advocacy-case/yury-dmitriev/
- 2018
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March 4 -
Skripal Poisoning
In Salisbury
- March 13 - Nikolai Glushkov, Berezovsky partner murdered in Surrey
- March 20 - Litvinenko's father shares sofa with Lugovoi on Russian chat show
- June 14 - Football World Cup opens in Russia, England team attending
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Aug. 7 -
Convicted bombers Krymshamkhalov & Dekkushev sentenced to additional 8-12 years
Initially convicted in 2004 for driving trucks with explosives for the Volgodonsk bombing.
- 2019
- June 27 - Son of FSB General Zdanovich (PR guy in 1999) sentenced to 10 yeas for cannabis
- July 12 - Achimez Gochiyayev charged with weapons offence, in absentia
- 2020
- Nov. 19 - Alexei Pivovarov releases YouTube documentary about the 1999 bombings
- 2021
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Dec. 28 -
Russian outlaws Memorial
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-memorial-international-supreme-court-closed/31629548.html
- 2022
- Feb. 24 - Russia invades Ukraine