What is the verdict on the 1999 Russian apartment bombings, that bolstered Putin and led to the Second Chechen War?

by PopKaro

I am referring specifically to the claim by some analysts/historians that it was a false flag operation carried out by the FSB.

Kochevnik81

You might be interested in this thread with answers I wrote along with comments from a now-deleted user. The long and short is that a lot of evidence is inconclusive, comes to us through strongly opinionated sources, and the government has flat-out destroyed evidence, so...a lot of it depends on individual interpretation.