Fact check
Is it true: Russia 1999 Apartment Bombings: FSB False-Flag Allegations?
There's no solid evidence for it.
The FSB false-flag theory for the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings is advanced by credible researchers (David Satter, John Dunlop, Alexander Litvinenko before his polonium murder) and rests on the documented Ryazan incident — FSB officers found placing materials in a residential basement days after the bombings, with FSB Director Patrushev subsequently claiming it was a "training exercise." However, no formal independent investigation has established FSB authorship, the Ryazan "sugar not explosives" explanation has not been forensically refuted, and the direct-evidence standard for a claim of state-orchestrated mass murder has not been met. The Russian government has closed rather than investigated the question.
The claim
In September 1999, a series of explosions destroyed apartment buildings in Moscow, Buynaksk, and Volgodonsk, killing approximately 300 people. The Russian government attributed the bombings to Chechen
Key evidence
Ryazan incident: FSB officers caught placing materials in apartment basement
No direct evidence — communications or orders — connecting FSB to the bombings
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