Tikhon Dzadko tells PBS that most Russians have forgotten about the 1999 bombings

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There's the famous story in 1999 of the apartment building bombings. It’s something that’s in all of the bios, and I know it’s written up as being one of the stories that he resented the most. What is the Russian population's opinion of those episodes, of the fact that some of the journalism early on was that the [FSB] was involved with it. How do people view that story now? I think the tragedy is that most of the people, they just don’t remember about it. We had so many terrible terrorist attacks in Russia over the last 17 years, and people just don’t forget it—they don’t remember about it. But if you talk to anyone about it, most of the people will say that it was made by the Chechen terrorists, right, like it was reported in the media. But still, among I would say liberals, especially in big cities in Moscow or in St. Petersburg, you will find a lot of people who will say that it was made by the FSB to help—to let Putin start the war in Chechnya, to get his ratings and his popularity. 1 1 Going In With a Bang THIS AMERICAN LIFE| APRIL 14, 2017 VIEW LINK Actually, it looks pretty logical, right. But the problem is that we don’t have enough proof to say that it was made by the secret services. …

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