http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/11/22/finally-we-know-about-moscow-bombings/
For what it is worth, the 1999 Moscow Apartment bombings were the launch point of Putin's rise from the generally unknown, last man standing head of Yeltsin's security service to the head of the war against chechnya and the Savior of the Nation.
"After the first shock passed, it turned out that we were living in an entirely different country….”1
