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Viv Groskop for The Observer wrote, the book focuses on the failed Ryazan bombings "in excruciating, rambling detail", but it fails to describe convincingly the involvement of Russian state security services in organizing the Russian apartment bombings and "lack of transparency makes it difficult to read it as more than conspiracy theory.
In September 2009 GQ's US issue included a story by Scott Anderson about his interviews with Mikhail Trepashkin on his investigations of the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.
This is on the account of members committing a grouping explosions of apartment houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk in 1999 (232 victims), 2 acts of terrorism in the Moscow underground in 2004 (52 victims, 300 wounded men), acts of terrorism in Krasnodar (3 victims, 20 wounded men), Voronezh (1 victim, 6 wounded men), Stavropol Territory, the Rostov-on-Don area.