Blowing up Russia

Yeltsin was moving towards the edge of an abyss. A session of the Security Council, held under his chairmanship on December 17, reviewed a plan for “the implementation of measures to restore constitutional legality, the rule of law and peace in the Chechen Republic.” The Security Council made the Ministry of Defense (Grachyov), the Ministry of the Interior (Viktor Yerin), the FSK (Stepashin), and the Federal Border Service (Nikolaev) responsible for using every possible means to disarm and destroy illegal armed formations in Chechnya and to secure the state and administrative borders of the Chechen Republic. The work was to be coordinated by Grachyov.
This was the day that marked the end of Russia’s liberal-democratic period. President Yeltsin had committed political suicide.

However, in 1994, the system began to falter, as Moscow extorted larger and larger sums of money in exchange for political favors relating to Chechen independence.

The explosion of November 18, 1994, took place on a railroad track crossing the river Yauza in Moscow.

In any case, in November 1994, public opinion in Russia and around the world was on the side of the Chechen people, so why would the Chechens have committed an act of terrorism in Moscow?

To grant Chechnya sovereign status could pose a genuine threat for the disintegration of Russia.

He came to Berezovsky and told him about the order. He went public with his story at a press conference, declaring that some top generals of the FSB were definitely breaking the law and giving their junior officers illegal orders.

Alexander made his choice. He came

I had just come to Moscow, where I had not lived since 1978, when I had immigrated to the United States.

Moscow really did protect Lugovoi—the only other person to be honored in Moscow in this way—20 years after the murder he had committed—was Ramón Mercader, the assassin of Trotsky, who had spent 20 years in a Mexican prison for killing the world-famous revolutionary.

At that time, Lugovoi was a former officer of the KGB-FSB, a former head of security for the dissident Boris Berezovsky, and a convicted criminal who had served a fourteen-month prison sentence for being an accomplice of Berezovsky’s. After Alexander’s murder, he was made a member of the Russian parliament—the State Duma. In a short time, he became the owner and proprietor of a whole network of security firms, who are licensed by the FSB. In other words, the Russian government and the FSB do everything to show that Andrei Lugovoi, the former convict, is a valued agent of the FSB’s central office, whom Moscow will never surrender.