This 2017 Radio Svoboda interview features Sergei Kovalev, Valentin Gefter, and Lev Levinson discussing the 18th anniversary of the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. The participants detail the technical inconsistencies of the Ryazan "sugar" incident, the obstruction of their independent inquiry by the FSB, and the suspicious deaths of several commission members. They argue that the bombings were politically expedient for Vladimir Putin's rise to power and that the official investigations were intentionally flawed.