Litvinenko Felshtinsky Izvestia Report

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This article from the July 26, 2002, edition of Izvestia details a public commission meeting and teleconference featuring Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky regarding the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. The document highlights written testimony from the main suspect, Achimez Gochiyayev, who claims he was framed by a school friend he suspects was an FSB agent. Gochiyayev asserts that after the September 9 Guryanova Street explosion and the September 13 Kashirskoye Highway explosion, he contacted emergency services to report other hexogen warehouses at Borisovskiye Ponds and Kapotnya, thereby preventing further attacks. Litvinenko also presented claims from suspects Krymshamkhalov and Batchayev accusing FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, Admiral Ukolov, and FSB officer Lozovsky of organizing and executing the bombings. The report criticizes the Russian government and the FSB for ignoring these leads and notes the suspicious nature of the Ryazan 'exercises' as part of a broader failure to transparently investigate the tragedies.

Events
  • 1999-09-04 - Buynansk, Dagestan, apartment bombing kills 64
  • 1999-09-13 - After tip-off, Police find further bombs in Moscow - Borisovskie Prudy and Kapotnya