Theme: Russian Media
"It is possible to live in a twilight between knowing and not knowing" - Albert Speer ""Does this mean that the KGB has always been a terrorist organisation?", Litvinenko in 2002, after reading Bukovsky's KGB files. How Russian people reacted to the bombings. - Initial reactions in 1999 - Wave of patriotism vs Chechnya - Slurring of Berezovsky & Litvinienko - sour grapes from greedy oligard - Pomerantsev style flood of counter narratives, uknowability - Unpatriotic to dig into dirt - see re-writing history theme
Events
- Aug. 24, 1998 Journalist Anatoly Levin-Utkin beaten to death after research Putin FSB story
- June 10, 1999 Swedish & Italian journalists publish articles predicting "State Terror" in Rus…
- July 22, 1999 Moskovskaya Pravda publishes "Storm in Moscow" predicting bombings
- Aug. 28, 1999 Yeltsin orders creation of new anti-terrorism FSB Department - disrupting exist…
- Sept. 8, 1999 Novaya Gazeta receives phone call warning of bombings
- Sept. 13, 1999 Newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets writes that special services likely behind the…
- Sept. 15, 1999 Vladimir Kozlov, Head of MVD, confirms explosives were industrial (ie Hexogen/R…
- Sept. 15, 1999 Moskovskij Komsomolets writes "almost 100% certainty" bombings done by professi…
- Sept. 17, 1999 Zhirinovsky attacks Seleznyov in Duma - asking how he knew about Volgodonsk bef…
- Sept. 20, 1999 Newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets claims to have prevented 3rd Moscow Bombing
- Sept. 23, 1999 Journalist Rimma Akhirimova of KP threatened by FSB when investigating Chechen …
- Sept. 23, 1999 Radio Rossiya announces bomb. Ryazan in full lock-down.
- Sept. 25, 1999 Nezavisimaya Gazeta paper explicitly accuses Yelstin, Putin & FSB of bombings, …
- Oct. 3, 1999 GRU officer Alexei Galkin captured in Chechnya
- March 12, 2000 Novaya Gazeta story of a soldier, Alexei Pinyaev, that mistook guarded Hexogen …
- March 21, 2000 Duma deputy Yury Shchekochikhin proposes motion for an investigation of Ryazan.
- March 24, 2000 Russian TV station NTV hosts TV debate where Ryazan residents confront FSB
- April 4, 2000 Duma rejects 2nd call for investigation of bombings. Later orders all files sea…
- July 20, 2000 Gusinsky signs "Shares for Freedom" agreement to sell NTV shares
- Aug. 12, 2000 Kursk submarine sinks
- Sept. 21, 2000 Fake letter from Ryazan residents condemning NTV "Ryazan Sugar" film
- April 14, 2001 Gazprom takes over NTV by force
- Dec. 20, 2001 Pinyaev retracts his story about hexogen/sugar in his tea
- Feb. 2, 2002 Sergei Kovalyov, Duma Deputy, opens public commission into the bombings
- March 5, 2002 Screening Assassination of Russia, Litvinenko film about the bombings, attended…
- March 14, 2002 Akhmed Zakayev address EU Parliament in Strasbourg
- April 14, 2002 Russian opinion polls shows only 38% reject the theory of FSB involvement in th…
- May 14, 2002 Russian Prosecutor General's confirms FSB version of Ryazan
- Oct. 26, 2002 Dubrovka Theatre, Nord-Ost Storming
- June 3, 2003 Andrei Mironov, prominent liberal journal, assaulted at home
- Dec. 1, 2004 Galkin film Countdown / Private Number released
- June 7, 2005 Russia Today TV Station starts.
- Jan. 1, 2006 Nikita Chekulin publishes book accusing Berezovsky of bombings
- Jan. 23, 2006 Nikita Chekulin retracts his statements about Hexogen
- June 8, 2006 Lebedev buys 39% of Novaya Gazeta
- Sept. 13, 2009 10th Anniversary: Valentin Gefter writes about unsolved questions in Novaya Ga…
- Sept. 27, 2009 Novaya Gazeta retracts story about Gochiyaev & Romanovich suspects. Apologises.
- Jan. 29, 2014 Dozhd TV Station cancelled after running Leningrad Siege Polll
- Nov. 19, 2020 Alexei Pivovarov releases YouTube documentary about the 1999 bombings