Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1999 Russian apartment bombings" in English language version.
At least 49 bodies, including children, have been found. Dozens more may be still trapped under the rubble. ... It is thought that few of the 120 people who lived in the block – situated on Kashirskoye Shosse – will have survived. ... The police are linking the blast to the bomb which killed 93 people in another block of flats in Moscow last Thursday.
Even if their guilt was never conclusively proven and the circumstances of the bomb blasts were shrouded in mystery, the attacks were widely attributed to Chechen terrorists (Dawisha 2014, 207–223). Together, these events provided Putin with the casus belli that he needed to initiate the Second Chechen War.
The evidence provided in The Moscow Bombings makes it abundantly clear that the FSB of the Russian Republic, headed by Patrushev, was responsible for carrying out the attacks.
Even if their guilt was never conclusively proven and the circumstances of the bomb blasts were shrouded in mystery, the attacks were widely attributed to Chechen terrorists (Dawisha 2014, 207–223). Together, these events provided Putin with the casus belli that he needed to initiate the Second Chechen War.
The evidence provided in The Moscow Bombings makes it abundantly clear that the FSB of the Russian Republic, headed by Patrushev, was responsible for carrying out the attacks.
At least 49 bodies, including children, have been found. Dozens more may be still trapped under the rubble. ... It is thought that few of the 120 people who lived in the block – situated on Kashirskoye Shosse – will have survived. ... The police are linking the blast to the bomb which killed 93 people in another block of flats in Moscow last Thursday.
