Victims of 1999 terror act in Moscow ask Medvedev to hold independent investigation

The victims of the explosion of an apartment house in the Guryanova Street in 1999 in Moscow demand from Dmitri Medvedev, the new president of Russia, to initiate an independent investigation, explaining that the case has many suspicious circumstances and "facts hidden under the table cloth."

Sisters Alyona and Tatiana Morozovas wrote an open letter to Medvedev that was published in The Wall Street Journal. In the explosion on September 9, 1999, the sisters lost their mother Lyubov, and Alyona Morozova survived by a miracle. The sisters assert that although the guilt for these crimes had been imposed on Chechen separatists, Russian special services could have been involved in the case.

"Today, we are confident that our mother and her neighbours were sacrificed for the sake of politics," the sisters have stated. Only an objective investigation can change this opinion.

Tatiana and Alyona Morozovas have called on the president of Russia "to find out and tell the truth about these crimes" and reminded that already four persons, who tried to investigate possible involvement of the FSB to the explosions of apartment houses, are dead: Sergey Yushenkov, Yuri Schekochikhin, Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko.

For reference: at night on September 9, 1999, a nine-storey apartment house in the Guryanova Street in Moscow was blown up (94 casualties). Then, on September 13, an eight-storey housing block in the Kashira Highway was blown up (124 casualties). A couple of days later, on September 16, 1999, explosions of dwelling houses in Volgodonsk followed.