Yuri Felshtinsky

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Yuri Felshtinsky
Blowing up Russia
  • The Age of Assassins
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    Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky (

    Blowing up Russia (with Alexander Litvinenko), and The Age of Assassins (with Vladimir Pribylovsky).[1]

    Education

    Felshtinsky's parents died when he was 17 years of age. He began studying history in 1974 at

    PhD in history from Rutgers University. In 1993, he returned to Moscow and defended his Doctor of Science thesis at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, becoming the first non-Russian citizen to earn a doctorate from a Russian university.[3]

    Career

    As Felshtinsky recalled himself, he has been studying Russia, including the Soviet Union, for the whole life although been "quite anti-Soviet" in his leanings. After emigration to America in 1978 he also worked as a historian of Russia, he said in the book "The age of Berezovsky" by Petr Aven.[4]

    Felshtinsky has published a number of books on the history of the

    Maksim Gorky by Genrikh Yagoda on orders from Joseph Stalin, murders of Mikhail Frunze, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and Leon Trotsky, and the poisoning of Stalin by associates of Lavrentiy Beria
    .

    In 1998, Felshtinsky traveled back to Moscow in order to study the politics of contemporary Russia. At that time, he became acquainted with Alexander Litvinenko, a lieutenant colonel of the Federal Security Service (FSB). In 2000, Felshtinsky and Litvinenko began working on Blowing Up Russia, a book that describes the gradual appropriation of power in Russia by the security apparatus and details the FSB's involvement in a series of terrorist acts that took place between 1994 and 1999. In August 2001, several chapters from Blowing Up Russia were published in a special edition of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta. In 2002, the book became the basis for a documentary film, Blowing Up Russia (also known as Assassination of Russia). Both the book and the documentary were officially banned in Russia for "divulging state secrets". Until 2006, Felshtinsky continued working with Litvinenko on gathering additional materials documenting the FSB's involvement in the apartment house bombings of September 1999.[6][7][8] According to the authors, the bombings were committed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), as a false flag operation intended to justify the Second Chechen War.

    In November 2006, Litvinenko died in London of acute radiation syndrome, three weeks after being poisoned with polonium-210. (See Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko).

    In 2007, investigator Mikhail Trepashkin said that, according to his FSB sources, "everyone who was involved in the publication of the book Blowing Up Russia will be killed," and that three FSB agents had made a trip to Boston to prepare the assassination of Felshtinsky.[9] After the death of exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who sponsored the book, Felshtinsky suggested that Berezovsky was killed.[10]

    List of selected publications

    Interviews

    References

    1. ^ Gordievsky, Oleg (7 March 2008). "The Age of Assassins: the Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin by Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2008.
    2. ^ Yuri Felshtinsky writes: "Я выбрал эмиграцию и сумел уехать (что в те годы было не банально). Я уехал по так называемой "израильской визе", хотя в Израиль даже не заехал, а уже в Вене декларировал американским властям свое желание жить в США, куда прибыл в апреле 1978 года. Никого из близких у меня в США не было. Уезжал я один. Родители мои умерли когда мне было 17 лет." From ШАГ ВПЕРЕД, ДВА ШАГА НАЗАД ИЛИ НОВЕЙШАЯ ИСТОРИЯ РОССИИИ, retrieved from the website of the author: felshtinsky.com, accessed 8 March 2015.
    3. ^ Биография [Biography] (in Russian). Yuri Felshtinsky. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
    4. ^ "Время Березовского" ["The age of Berezovsky"] (Text online). Terra. 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
    5. ^ Вожди в законе [Leaders the mobsters] (Text online) (in Russian). Moscow: Terra. 1999. Archived from the original on 14 February 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2008.
    6. ^ "Britain accuses Russian in murder of Litvinenko". 22 May 2007. Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
    7. ^ Cowell, Alan (23 May 2007). "Russian Is Accused of Poisoning Ex-K.G.B. Agent". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
    8. ^ "Yuri's quest to uncover the truth lives on".[permanent dead link]
    9. Radio Liberty. 1 December 2007. Archived
      from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2008. все, кто причастен к выпуску книги «ФСБ взрывает Россию», будут уничтожены, и что выехала в Штаты группа из трех человек, сотрудников федеральной службы безопасности ... по месту жительства Фельштинского в город Бостон.
    10. The Financial Times
      . 24 March 2013.

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