Amsterdam

[Chris Doss]

Kagarlitsky's taste for the crisis-paradigm and conspiracy theory is
flamboyant even by Russian standards. He's got a conspiracy theory on the
1999 apartment bombings in Moscow that is almost Hakki-like in its
complexity (not that I think it unlikely that a conspiracy was involved, but
his is labyrinthine).

Berezovsky is claiming that soon he will release documentation proving that
Putin ordered the 1999 bombings as a way to justify going into Chechnya and
boosting his ratings. This is a pretty bizarre development, since Putin was
basically put into power by Berezovsky, who orchestrated his campaign...

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal
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Doug said: 

It was a good conference - smart people, though a bit too fond of 
crisis for my taste. Boris most of all - I always like to hear what 
he has to say (though I never quite get his frequent "old Jewish 
jokes"), but every panic or recession is a crisis to Boris. Maybe it 
comes from living in Russia.