Yuri Georgievich Felschtinsky

Yuri Georgievich Felschtinsky

Juri Georgijewitsch Felschtinski ( Russian Юрий Георгиевич Фельштинский , scientific transliteration Jurij Georgievič Fel'štinskij, English transcription Yuri Felshtinsky ; born September 7, 1956 in Moscow ) is an American historian of Russian - Soviet origin.

Life

Yuri Felschtinsky was born in Moscow in 1956. He began studying history in 1974 in his hometown. After emigrating to the USA , he continued his studies at Brandeis University in 1978 . He received his PhD in history from Rutgers University . In 1993 he defended another doctoral thesis at the Historical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In the following years Felschtinski appeared as editor and book author. Together with the Russian ex- FSB employee Alexandr Litwinenko , he published the book FSB wsrywaet Rossiju ( Blowing up Russia ) in 2002 , in which the authors a. a. claim that Russian intelligence was involved in the 1999 series of attacks on Moscow apartment buildings .

Publications

• Александр Литвиненко, Юрий Фельштинский: ФСБ взрывает Россию. Федеральная служба безопасности - организатор террористических актов, похищений и убийств. Издание второе, исправленное и дополненное. Liberty Publishing House, New York 2002, ISBN 0-914481-63-0 .
  • Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within. Gibson Square Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-903933-95-4 .
  • Ice Age in the Kremlin. The plot of the Russian secret services. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-455-50039-4 .
• with Vladimir Pribylovsky: The Corporation: Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin. Encounter Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59403-246-2 .
• with Boris Gulko , Vladimir Popov & Viktor Kortschnoi : The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown. Russell Enterprises, 2010, ISBN

Web links

• Literature by and about Juri Georgijewitsch Felschtinski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official Website (Russian)
• Andrew Marr: The Litvinenko affair. In: BBC News . February 5, 2007 (English, interview with Juri Felschtinsky). 
• Steffen Dobbert : Russia: "Putin had Nemtsov executed". In: Zeit Online . March 6, 2015 (interview with Yuri Felschtinsky).