MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (MVD of Russia)

Criminal Police Service
Main Directorate for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking
117049, Moscow, Zhitnaya St., 16

25.09.2002 No. 9/9-2440
To No. 133/2002 dated 10.09.2002

To the lawyer of legal consultation No. 45 of the Inter-republican Bar Association
E.A. Chernousov

103006, Moscow, M. Dmitrovka St., 18 A

Regarding Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov

In response to your request, I inform you that Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov contacted an employee of the UBNON of the MVD of Russia, V.M. Kirienkov, on 31.08.1999 with information about possible explosions in Moscow; however, he did not provide information about the time, place, or persons planning to carry them out.
The specified information was immediately reported orally and sent in writing to the UFSB for Moscow and the Moscow Region on 03.09.1999. Their further verification was carried out by this unit.
Previously (on 21.08.1999), Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov had contacted the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with similar information.

Deputy Head [signature] M.G. Melikhov

Head of Directorate Sergeev Al-r Nik.

18.04 -> 19.04
239-6556r.

Testimony of Sergei Mikhailovich Sokolov

To the Chairman of the Public Commission
for the investigation of the circumstances of the apartment bombings in the cities of Moscow and Volgodonsk and the conduct of exercises in the city of Ryazan in September 1999

Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov

Testimony of Sergei Mikhailovich Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of "Novaya Gazeta", witness in the episode "Mylnikov's Letters"

Questions and Answers

Were you interrogated as a witness in the Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov case?
I was not interrogated as a witness. Statements were taken regarding the fact of receiving the letter. Moreover, I personally reported it to the FSB using an operative's phone number known to me.

Did you receive an anonymous letter demanding the release of Natalya Zander and threatening explosions "every 7 days" on September 7, 1999?
Yes, I received the letter, I don't remember exactly when.

How did this letter get into your hands?
Through the secretaries who receive the editorial mail.

Who opened the envelope?
I don't remember.

Were there traces of postal processing on the envelope?
I don't remember. There were definitely stamps.

Was the letter handwritten or typed?
Handwritten.

Was it the original or could it have been a Xerox or scanned copy?
As far as I remember — the original.

By what signs could this be judged?
Paper quality, image, color, characteristic marks.

Does the copy of the letter offered to you now look like the one you received in September 1999?
I don't remember the details of that letter exactly, there is a resemblance.

By what signs can this be judged?
Content, appearance. I don't remember the handwriting and details of the text.

S.M. Sokolov
date

Questions were asked by the assistant to Commission member Valentin Gefter
L.I. Evstifeeva

Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov

Timeline and Events

• Detention — October 2002
• Summer 99 — Deputy employee/colleague.
  • In the gang — in SIZO No. 6.
• UFSB — conversation in 09.99.
  • Initiation of case under 207 [Article 207: False report of terrorism]
  • Jointly? Closed? in Lefortovo
  • Reclassified under 205: [Article 205: Terrorism]

Sentence — 16.08.2002.
Was in a mask.

Pager 31.08.
* UFSB did not check where the call to the pager came from.
* The investigation was not interested! (It was not in the materials of the conclusion and the sentence)

Pager Calls

1. Call on the 30th, on the 31st it arrived before the explosion:
   "If tomorrow N. is not at home, there will be a big firework display"
2. $\approx$ on the 1st, after the explosion, with the 2nd call:
   "We promised and we did it. We are waiting for the resolution of the issue. Your friends."
   • Taken up to the deputy minister (report)
3. $\approx$ 3.09. — report to UFSB for Moscow and Moscow region.
   • Marked psych N.

Appeal

Investigative and judicial bodies have turned to arbitrariness in their actions.
We, volunteers, are forced to take measures against the power of the rulers and their henchmen.
For example, in the Ostankino court, judge Nabatova ordered the arrest in the courtroom of Russian citizen Natalya Viktorovna Zander, mother of two young minor children, who also supports two elderly parents, group 2 disabled.
We demand the release of Natalya Viktorovna Zander by September 1, 1999. Otherwise, every 7 days, communications, buildings, etc. will be blown up.
Volunteers of Russia.

I believe that during the interrogations that took place during my detention in September 1999, I wrote this handwritten appeal, i.e., the writing of this text was possible after the 1999 bombings in early September 1999. The interrogations were conducted by FSB officers.

June 24, 2002. [Signature] /Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov/

Appeal

... and judicial authorities have moved to actions and arbitrariness. Volunteers are forced to take measures against the power of the rulers and their henchmen.

In the Gatchina court, the judge visited the house in the courtroom citizen Ra... Sieber Natalia Viktorovna, in the position of assistant judge, who supports two elderly disabled parents.

Release Sieber Natalia Viktorovna by October 1, 1999, otherwise there will be explosions of premises, buildings, etc.

Volunteers of Russia.

Appeal

Investigative and judicial bodies have turned to arbitrary actions.
We, volunteers, are forced to take measures against the power of the rulers and their henchmen.
Thus, in the Ostankino court, judge Matveev arrested a Russian citizen, Natalya Petrovna Zander, a mother of two minor children, who also has two elderly parents, disabled of the second group, as dependents.
We demand the release of Natalya Petrovna Zander by September 1, 1999. Otherwise, every 7 days, shops, buildings, etc., will be blown up.

Volunteers of Russia.