Alena Morozova, who survived a 1999 terrorist explosion in her Moscow apartment building, has been granted political asylum in the United States after claiming that her investigations into the possibility that the Federal Security Service (FSB) carried out the bombing had put her life in danger. Morozova\'s lawyer, former FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, was sentenced to four years\' imprisonment by a Moscow court in May, in what many believe was a trumped-up case intended to punish him for attempting to implicate the FSB in the 1999 bombings. \"I know the material collected by Trepashkin, for which he is being persecuted by the Russian government, would leave even the most skeptical bureaucrat in the [U.S.] immigration service in no doubt that the Russian authorities will stop at nothing to hide the truth about the apartment-building explosion,\" Morozova told Ekho Moskvy. She said that she intends to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to raise Trepashkin\'s case with President Putin at their 24 February summit in Slovakia. (RFE/RL)