Dagestan
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Dagestan is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 11, 2023 and September 13, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Russian counteroffensive in Dagestan”; “the Chechens were literally invading the Russian province of Dagestan at the time”. It most often appears alongside Chechnya, CIA, FSB.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 11, 2023
- Last seen: September 13, 2024
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- Chechnya (2 shared issues)
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- CIA (2 shared issues)
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- FSB (2 shared issues)
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- MOSCOW (2 shared issues)
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- Putin (2 shared issues)
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- Russia (2 shared issues)
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- Ukraine (2 shared issues)
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- 1993 Russian constitutional crisis (1 shared issues)
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- 1999 apartment bombings (1 shared issues)
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- 2011 parliamentary election (1 shared issues)
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- 2011-2014 protests (1 shared issues)
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- 11 (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Interestingly, Short begins his biography by explaining why he doesn't think the apartment bombings were Putin's doing. Among other things, there was a smaller bomb in Volgodonsk set off by gangsters a few days before the apartment bomb which had appeared in Moscow press in a manner that could fool a parliamentarian into thinking another apartment bombing had occurred. Also, for some stupid reason, it really was KGB/FSB practice to conduct drills like the Ryazan incident. Finally, the bombings occurred in the context of a Russian counteroffensive in Dagestan, and the conspiracy version requires us to believe that insurgents like Shamir Basayev were willing to lie about the origin of the bomb to help Putin for some reason.
Also, why would Putin organize five false flag bombings? Wouldn’t just one or two be enough, all the others just increasing the risk of getting caught in the act? This seems like a crazy overkill, especially given that the Chechens were literally invading the Russian province of Dagestan at the time, seizing whole villages and massacring captives, which could be enough casus belli in itself.
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Chechen extremists, while invading Dagestan, decided to blow up some buildings in Russia as a revenge for earlier Russian atrocities. In response, Russia invaded Chechnya (which had been basically independent since the First Chechen War), and was unexpectedly successful in the invasion. The Chechen group responsible for the attacks realized that their comrades would be angry at them for causing the downfall of independent Chechnya, so decided not to go public about their involvement in the bombings.