Theme: Cover Up
Actions undertaken by the FSB to cover up their involvement in 1999 bombings. - Explanations of Ryazan "training exercise" - Changing photo-fit picture of the suspect that rented the basement - Changing story of witnesses, participants - Silencing of witnesses, participants, journalists (assassination, jailing, expelling) - Smearing of research - Litvinenko - portayal as Koroviev, Master & Margarita character that can create any illusion - Distractions
Events
- Sept. 4, 1996 Max Lazovsky arrested by Vladimir Tskhai, for minor offences
- April 12, 1997 Policeman Vladimir Tskhai, who uncovered Lazovksy/FSB/gangs, dies - probably po…
- July 4, 1998 Lev Rokhlin, Army General (ret.), Yeltsin critic, assassinated
- Aug. 7, 1999 Wahhabist militia invade Dagestan from Chechnya, allegedly with connivance of B…
- Aug. 28, 1999 Yeltsin orders creation of new anti-terrorism FSB Department - disrupting exist…
- Sept. 10, 1999 Putin flies to New Zealand for APEC Summit
- Sept. 10, 1999 Someone named "Tatyana Koroleva" arrested in Ryazan for defacing her passport
- Sept. 14, 1999 Putin says FSB sure Osama bin Laden behind the bombings
- Sept. 14, 1999 Putin leaves NZ early to deal with bombings
- 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 Putin announces bombing successfully foiled. Praises residents. Call for invasi…
- Sept. 24, 1999 Patrushev tells NTV journalist Nikolaev that Ryazan incident was a training exe…
- Feb. 19, 2000 Suspicious death of Anatoly Sobchak, ex Mayor of St Petersburg & Putin's 1st po…
- March 9, 2000 Artyom Borovik, TV star journalist researching bombings, dies in private plane …
- March 15, 2000 Novaya Gazeta hacked, issue following Pinyaev hexogen story destroyed
- March 22, 2000 Retired KGB Vympel officers press conference validating FSB version of Ryazan a…
- April 4, 2000 Duma rejects 2nd call for investigation of bombings. Later orders all files sea…
- April 28, 2000 Maxim Lazovsky, FSB officer accused by Litvinenko of orchestrating 1999 bombing…
- Aug. 1, 2000 Vladimir Romanovich, possible bomber, reported to have died in hit & run in Cyp…
- Sept. 21, 2000 Fake letter from Ryazan residents condemning NTV "Ryazan Sugar" film
- April 14, 2001 Gazprom takes over NTV by force
- May 1, 2001 German Ugryumov, FSB Counter Terrorism Chief, dies - rumours of suicide/assasin…
- Dec. 20, 2001 Pinyaev retracts his story about hexogen/sugar in his tea
- March 6, 2002 Nikita Chekulin claims his department provided Hexogen to FSB "anti-terrorism" …
- March 14, 2002 Akhmed Zakayev address EU Parliament in Strasbourg
- March 20, 2002 Ibn al-Khattab, accussed of 1999 bombings, killed by FSB via poisoned letter
- April 2, 2002 Duma rejects Yuschenkov proposal for 1999 Commission
- April 19, 2002 2nd Duma Vote to create Commission rejected
- May 14, 2002 Russian Prosecutor General's confirms FSB version of Ryazan
- June 6, 2002 Russian Magazine/website "Top Secret" publishes elaborate counter narrative for…
- Oct. 23, 2002 Nord Ost Theatre Siege
- Oct. 30, 2002 Akhmed Zakayev arrested in Denmark
- April 17, 2003 Sergei Yushenkov, chair of Duma Bombings Commission, shot in Moscow
- July 3, 2003 Yury Shchekochikhin murdered by poisoning. Medical details classified by govern…
- Oct. 22, 2003 MIkhail Trepashkin, victim's lawyer, arrested
- Oct. 31, 2003 Trial of bombing suspects Krymshamkhalov and Dekkushev begins
- Nov. 11, 2003 Otto Lacis, member of Koyalyov's Bombing Commission,, beaten and hospitalised
- Jan. 12, 2004 Krymshamkhalov & Dekkushev sentence to life imprisonment for Moscow & Volgodonsk
- Feb. 24, 2004 Trepashkin's wife, Tatanya, writes to Tony Blair asking that he refutes spying …
- April 4, 2004 Nekrasov's Disbelief pulled from Chicago Film Festival
- July 9, 2004 Paul Klebnikov assassinated
- Dec. 1, 2004 Galkin film Countdown / Private Number released
- April 10, 2005 Anatoly Trofimov, retired FSB General, head of investigations, assassinated
- Jan. 1, 2006 Nikita Chekulin publishes book accusing Berezovsky of bombings
- Jan. 23, 2006 Nikita Chekulin retracts his statements about Hexogen
- March 6, 2006 Russia passes "Counteration to Terrorism" law permitting extra-judicial killing
- Oct. 7, 2006 Anna Politkovskaya shot
- Oct. 30, 2006 Igor Ponomarev, Russian official, unexplained death at 41 after meeting Litvine…
- Nov. 23, 2006 Alexander Litvinenko dies from poisoning
- July 14, 2007 Russia publishes "Federal list of extremist materials"
- Sept. 27, 2009 Novaya Gazeta retracts story about Gochiyaev & Romanovich suspects. Apologises.
- Dec. 24, 2012 Man jailed for Yushenkov's murder accuses Berezovsky
- March 23, 2013 Berezovsky found dead in Surrey, open verdict murder or suicide
- Feb. 17, 2015 Boris Nemtsov assassinated
- Nov. 5, 2015 Mikhail Lesin dies in Washington. Minister of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Com…
- March 13, 2018 Nikolai Glushkov, Berezovsky partner murdered in Surrey
- Aug. 7, 2018 Convicted bombers Krymshamkhalov & Dekkushev sentenced to additional 8-12 years
- June 27, 2019 Son of FSB General Zdanovich (PR guy in 1999) sentenced to 10 yeas for cannabis
- July 12, 2019 Achimez Gochiyayev charged with weapons offence, in absentia