I remember the aftermath well because the explosion happened nine days after I started work in The Times’s Moscow office. On September 9, 1999, soon after midnight, a bomb destroyed an apartment building on Guryanova Street in southeastern Moscow. Boris Yeltsin, its fading, alcoholic president, had wrecked the economy and an insurgency was brewing in the south, in Dagestan. Five days earlier a similar bomb had killed 64 people in Dagestan’s second… By the time we got there, the flats were a heap of smouldering rubble.

Source: The Times July 22, 2016 23:09 UTC