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Former FSB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko — the hero of a whole series of criminal scandals who received political asylum in England — held another video link from London yesterday with Russian journalists, deputies, and human rights activists. At the new virtual meeting, the disgraced counterintelligence officer continued the scandalous theme started in the spring, also via video link from London, by ex-oligarch Boris Berezovsky (his friend and business partner) — that the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk in the fall of 1999 were allegedly organized not by Chechen terrorists at all, but by the FSB itself. Mr. Litvinenko timed his report to coincide with a meeting of the public commission investigating those tragic events, headed by State Duma deputies Sergei Adamovich Kovalyov and Sergei Nikolayevich Yushenkov.

Everyone gathered for this occasion at the Baltschug Kempinski Hotel expected a sensation. On the eve, Mr. Litvinenko promised correspondents that he intended to show a certain videotape with an interview with Achimez Gochiyayev — the main suspect in organizing the apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, according to the FSB version. This man, the former counterintelligence officer assured, allegedly told him in detail and with evidence how everything really happened in the fall of 1999. However, Mr. Litvinenko cruelly disappointed the capital's public. The counterintelligence officer refused to demonstrate the recording of the interview, citing the fact that he was weak in technical matters and did not know how to "play" it. And he suggested that everyone who wanted to should come to London for it.

As for the content of the interview that was never shown, lawyer Yuri Felshtinsky — Mr. Litvinenko's co-author of the book "Blowing Up Russia" — spoke about it in detail. According to him, they did not see Gochiyayev personally, but received a tape with an interview and personal handwritten testimony through a certain intermediary. From them, it followed that Gochiyayev had never been a Chechen militant and had lived and worked in Moscow for all recent years, heading his own OJSC "Kapstroy-2000". In August 1999, Gochiyayev's revelations say, a certain school friend, whom he trusted very much, asked him to rent basements in residential buildings in different parts of Moscow. Gochiyayev fulfilled the request, and then the houses began to explode. Moreover, after one terrorist attack, the "friend" asked...

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Mr. Litvinenko "unequivocally" assured that the photo previously shown to the public by FSB representatives, depicting Gochiyayev in the company of Khattab, was a photomontage. And he showed "real" photographs of Gochiyayev, in which the latter was photographed alone. Form...

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• ...eliminated" as an extra witness. As an evidence base for what was said during the teleconference, journalists received from its organizers a printout of "in-