Papakhas on the Towers

On one of those memorable August days, two hundred men from the Basyayev sabotage battalion—driving forty confiscated “Mercedes-600” cars belonging to residents of the mountainous regions of Chechnya—seized the Kremlin, barricaded all entrances and exits, and raised curly fur hats on the Kremlin stars.

The analytical department of the FSB was tasked, on an urgent basis, to develop countermeasures—and they were invented, and in record-breaking time.