Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within (Russian: ФСБ взрывает Россию) is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky. It was translated to 20 languages and published in more than 20 countries However, in Russia the book was confiscated, forbidden for "divulging state secrets" and included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Authors have described the Russian apartment bombings as a false flag operation that was guided by the Russian Federal Security Service to justify the Second Chechen War and bring Vladimir Putin to power. The story was initially printed by Yuri Shchekochikhin in a special issue of Novaya gazeta in August 2001 and published as a book in 2002.