Author of quotes: Alexander Litvinenko

If in the first Chechen war of 1994-96 security services tried to prevent the reversal of Russia in the direction of liberal democratic development, the political tasks of the second war was much more serious: to provoke Russia into war with Chechnya, and in the beginning of the turmoil to seize power in Russia in the next (2000) presidential election.

23 December was the beginning of the terrorist campaign, the FSB against Russia. From that day the attacks have become commonplace.

... the Russian experience confirms that the possible options Russia often chooses the worst.

Behind Anatoly Sobchak in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) was a KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Putin. In the words of Sobchak, this meant that "the KGB controls St. Petersburg."

If earlier, the KGB was under the political control of the party, which was for the authorities a kind of brake, since any major surgery was carried out only with the approval of the Politburo, after 1991, of the MB-FSK-FSB began to operate on Russian soil completely independently and uncontrollably. Control over the actions of the FSB carried out by the FSB. Pervasive aggressive structure was outside not only the ideological but also the legal field.