The Kremlin quickly responded. The KGB (now FSB) declared that they had planted the bomb, that it was a “fake” made of sugar and the planting had been part of an exercise to test the citizens’ vigilance. The local police were ordered to stop their investigation. The evidence was confiscated. The local newspapers were burglarized and ransacked. The residents in the threatened apartment block were bribed into silence by the government. The French newspaper Le Figaro asked Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, former Security Council chief under Yeltsin, if the Russian government was behind the bombings. Lebed, who died earlier this year in a “helicopter crash,” said he was “almost convinced of it.”Is there any truth in this, or is it all just more anti-Russian propaganda?