Blowing Up Russia

Blowing Up Russia

Author	Alexander Litvinenko Yuri Felshtinsky
Original title	ФСБ взрывает Россию
Translator	Geoffrey Andrews
Subject	Russian apartment bombings
Publisher	S.P.I. Books
Publication date	2002
Pages	322 pp.
ISBN	978-1-56171-938-9
OCLC	481235634

Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within (Russian: ФСБ взрывает Россию, romanized: FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu, lit. 'FSB blows Russia up') is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky.^[1] The authors describe the Russian apartment bombings as a false flag operation that was guided by the Russian Federal Security Service to justify the Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. The story was initially printed by Yuri Shchekochikhin in a special issue of Novaya Gazeta in August 2001^[2] and published as a book in 2002. In Russia, the book was prohibited because it divulged state secrets, and it was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials.^[3] However, it was published in more than twenty other countries and translated into twenty languages.^[4]