The error is all mine. My apology for being lazy. I wrongly remembered the apartment bombings in 1999 as being attributed to Putin as his way of provoking fear and holding onto power. This is completely untrue. Somehow I held onto this belief for many years and never checked into it. This was a big ******* move on my part.Sumela » 13 Aug 2023, 12:52 pm » wrote: ↑ He got into power because drunken Boris Yeltsin was a complete failure.