On September 9, 1999, soon after midnight, a bomb destroyed an apartment building on Guryanova Street in southeastern Moscow. A hundred people died and nearly seven hundred were injured.I remember the aftermath well because the explosion happened nine days after I started work in The Times’s Moscow office. By the time we got there, the flats were a heap of smouldering rubble.
Russia was already jittery.
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