Original sentence: August 8 1999: Shamil Basayev's forces invade Dagestan.September 22 1999: FSB agents were allegedly caught while planting the bomb in Ryazan.September 24 1999: the Second Chechen War starts
Edited sentence: 17 November 1998: Five FSB officers including Alexander Litvinenko accuse the FSB leadership of ordering assassination of Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Trepashkin.20 November 1998: Galina Starovoitova, a proponent of lustration, was assassinated.August 8 1999: Shamil Basayev begins incursion to Dagestan, which was regarded by Anna Politkovskaya as a provocation intitiated from Moscow.December 31 1999: President Boris Yeltsin resigns.July 1998: Vladimir Putin was appointed Director of the FSB.March 26 2000: Vladimir Putin wins presidential elections.May 12 1999: Sergei Stepashin, a former FSB Director, becomes Prime Minister of Russia.Putin is appointed as acting President.September 1998: Yevgeny Primakov, a KGB veteran, becomes Prime Minister of Russia.September 22 1999: FSB agents were caught while planting the bomb in Ryazan.September 24 1999: Vladimir Putin begins Second Chechen War