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Russian apartment bombings were a series of bombings in Russia in autumn in 1999 that killed nearly 300 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War.
These films, which are forbidden for screening in Russia, provide convincing evidence that the bombings were perpetrated by FSB (formerly KGB) in order to organise support for the new Chechen War by the Russian population and bring Putin to power.
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Transparences Productions (France). Director: Jean-Charles Deniau. Producer: Charles Gazelle. 2000
A 52-minute documentary, using footage originally shot by NTV. The film examines the apartment bombings in Russia and focuses on the foiled bombing in Ryazan on September 22, 1999, where FSB agents were caught red handed. FSB declared the Ryazan incident "an exercise".
This film is based on a book Blowing up Russia: Terror from within
The original text: Александр Литвиненко, Юрий Фельштинский ФСБ взрывает Россию. Федеральная служба безопасности — организатор террористических актов, похищений и убийств. Parts of this book were published in Novaya Gazeta.
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A film by Andrei Nekrasov. Dreamscanner Productions, 2004
A fatal bomb blast in a Moscow apartment building ignites a fury of questions about terrorism, shadow politics, and post-Soviet intrigue in Disbelief; a film as much about the high art of political deception as it is about violence and human tragedy. The bombing on September 9, 1999, of a nine-story working-class apartment complex in Moscow was quickly blamed on Chechen terrorists. But was it their crime? Or did the Russian secret service deflect its own responsibility for the bombing on the Chechens to heighten national fear and hysteria and justify Russia's subsequent military attack on the breakaway republic?
"Deploying all the suspense and drama of a sophisticated murder mystery, Nekrasov has created one of the most compelling and captivating films of the year” — 2004 Sundance Film Festival Catalogue.
The film can be seen for free on Video Google
Additional information:
The next film by Andrei Nekrasov is called Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case. This is an interview with the author made during the Civic Forum in Helsinki in July 2007.
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