THE INVESTIGATION IS NOT FINISHED

HEXOGEN-RELATED

Yuri LIZUNOV

The captured terrorist Yusuf Krymshamkhalov, involved in the bombings of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, is finally being tried. However, it seems we will never truly know how the proceedings are going and what has become known about the real causes of the tragedy. The high-profile trial has been muffled, made quiet. Moreover, the trouble is also that our society is deeply indifferent to all this. That's just how it's built. Any other society in its place would have demanded an open trial, insisted at least on an explanation for the reasons for secrecy and, if it is so inevitable, on the creation of a special parliamentary commission in which people with appropriate clearance to classified materials could observe the progress of the trial... But what are we talking about? Society has already decided on the parliament...

Since 1999, "Novaya Gazeta" has been observing how the perpetrators and masterminds of the terrorist attacks are being sought (a series of materials "FSB. Hexogen. Ryazan", "The Hexogen Trace", materials about the gang of Max Lazovsky, involved in early Moscow bombings). Since then, a big political game has been going on in the country. The main players are the current Russian authorities and its past in the person of the fugitive oligarch Boris Berezovsky. The terrorist attacks continued: there was an explosion in the passage at Pushkinskaya, the seizure of "Nord-Ost", and the players all...

From the letter of KRYMSHAMKHALOV and BATCHAEV (another terrorist killed during a joint operation of Russian and Georgian special services near the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia) to the commission for the investigation of the bombings of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk:

... buildings of special services and the military, not residential buildings. We did not anticipate that the explosions would occur at the storage site of the bags, in the basements of residential buildings. The time of the terrorist attacks was not known to us. Having learned about these explosions, we fled to Chechnya.

1. <...> Our views allowed those who actually stood behind the organization and implementation of the terrorist attacks in Moscow and Volgodonsk in September 1999 to recruit us to participate in the organization of terrorist attacks. Today we understand that we were used "blindly," that in 1999 we did not understand who our bosses really were and who we were actually working for. Today we understand and know this. It took almost three years to realize what happened, to collect information and evidence about who...

Two of the few surviving terrorists are being tried in a closed process. This means that we will hear the truth about the terrorist attacks in September 1999 in a hundred years, or maybe never.

Novaya Gazeta No. 94 (927)