Interrogation Transcript

Question & Answer Log

Question 1

What ultimately prompted you to hide from the authorities? When did you realize that they specifically wanted to frame you? When did you come to this opinion?

Answer:
Immediately after the second explosion, I realized that I had been framed for good. After the first explosion, I didn't fully understand anything. The only thing that alerted me was that (K.) didn't immediately say what had actually happened there. He called my mobile and told me: "Come over, there's been a small fire," although in reality, I saw on TV at that same time that something terrible had happened.

Later I went there, took a look—it was a horrific sight. But I didn't meet with (K.). I arrived, looked, and left. All those fake documents that I supposedly used were prepared by them in advance so that their operation would go successfully and nothing would fail anywhere. They didn't expect not to find me at home, otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you now, or to anyone else.

Question 2

Did anyone contact you after what happened?

Answer:
No. After the 13th, I left Moscow. I know that later Moscow FSB officers were working in our republic. They broke relatives, intimidated them very strongly. I heard they first offered money to my sister. Then, when she refused, threats and demands began for her to give an interview saying that I was capable of this. First by bribery, then by threat. I know that she was taken to a cemetery with a small child, who wasn't even three years old, so that she would give incriminating testimony against me, otherwise they would kill her and her child. Such are the methods of the FSB.

Question 3

How do your friends and acquaintances feel about this?

Answer:
Regarding friends and acquaintances: everyone who knows me doesn't believe that I could have done this.

Question 4

What about the testimony of some prisoners against you?

Answer:
I know that there are some people who are also seemingly accused of terrorist attacks, and these prisoners are giving testimony against me. But knowing the KGB/FSB system, there are 150 million people living in Russia, and under this system, they can always be made witnesses to a certain...

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