Anatoly Mylnikov Case Files
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This document comprises a letter and interview by Anatoly Viktorovich Mylnikov from 2003, alongside a 2002 Russian Supreme Court cassation ruling regarding his terrorism conviction. Mylnikov claims he was framed by the FSB to cover up the fact that he provided foreknowledge of the 1999 Moscow bombings to the MVD and FSB on August 30, 1999, one day before the Manezh Square explosion. He alleges the FSB fabricated a terrorism charge (Article 205) to keep him in the Lefortovo detention center and prevent him from speaking to the media about the authorities' failure to act on his pager-received warnings. The document notes that politician Sergei Yushenkov was assisting Mylnikov with his case before Yushenkov's assassination. The official court ruling, however, maintains that Mylnikov authored threatening letters from a fake group called 'Volunteers of Russia' to demand the release of N.V. Zander. Mention is also made of a September 11, 1999, newspaper article in Komsomolskaya Pravda that Mylnikov claims halted further planned explosions.
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- 1999-08-28 - Yeltsin orders creation of new anti-terrorism FSB Department - disrupting existing functions
- 1999-09-08 - Novaya Gazeta receives phone call warning of bombings