Helena Merriman
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The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed, hundreds killed.
But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it.
It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories.
I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series, I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.
What did they miss the first time?
The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Start off your 2026 with a brilliant podcast box set from the BBC World Service.
Search for 13 Minutes wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
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In October of 1961, Joachim Rudolph was a college student going to school in West Berlin.
In October of 1961, Joachim Rudolph was a college student going to school in West Berlin.
It was just two months after the Berlin Wall had gone up overnight. Even the people building the wall hadn't known about it beforehand.