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“super-effective weapons systems”: Ibid.

“Nanotechnology will be”: Alexander and Zaitchik, “Russia Pours Billions in Oil Profits into Nanotech Race,” Wired.com, November 1, 2007.

“expansive to the point”: Ibid.

“Nanotechnology will be”: Ibid.

“As the industry expands”: Nadia Popova, “Chubais Predicts Big Growth in Nano Jobs,” Moscow Times, September 3, 2009.

“The prospects,” “technologies have brilliant”: archive.government.ru/eng/multimedia/photo/2009/?page=95.

“We were hoping”: “Viktor Chernomyrdin, a Russian prime minister, died on November 3rd, aged 72,” Economist, November 4, 2010. There are several translations of this brilliant formulation. None quite work.

CHAPTER 7: THE HEART OF THE MATTER: UKRAINE

“In geopolitics”: Robert Kaplan, “Old World Order,” Time, March 20, 2014.

“You have to understand”: “Putin Hints at Splitting Up Ukraine,” Moscow Times, April 8, 2008. I have here modified the translation of “gosudarstvo,” which could also be rendered as “state” or “nation-state.”

“It might not be”: Ivan Nechepurenko, “Gorbachev on Russia and Ukraine,” Moscow Times, November 21, 2014.

“Our land is vast”: quoted in Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking, p. 39.

“sacred”: “Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks US, EU over Ukraine,” Bloomberg Business, December 3, 2014.

“If anyone does not:” Volkoff, Vladimir the Russian Viking, p. 234.

“they must be”: Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), p. 7.

“The Catholic inquisitors”: Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: Fred de Fau, 1906), vol. 7, p. 4.

“abominable”: Simon Seabag Montefiore, Potemkin (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), p. 362.

“escaped serfs”: Anna Reid, Borderland (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2000), p. 31.

“the faith, language”: Ibid., p. 29.

“the language of serfs”: Ibid., p. 30.

“Oh Bohdan”: My translation.

“to Russians”: Reid, Borderland, p. 64.

“an odd mixture”: Ibid., p. 79.

“Shevchenko has acquired”: Ibid., pp. 81–82.

“Under the strictest”: Ibid., p. 82.

“I don’t rule Russia”: Quoted in Paul Taylor, “Frictions Created in Civil Service in Reagan Era,” Washington Post, January 19, 1983.

“not misuse”: Reid, Borderlands, p. 83.

“know nothing of God … family of the free”: My translation.

“gray blur”: Remark by Menshevik Nikolai Sukhanov quoted in a review by Ian Cumming of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin, Sydney Morning Herald, March 2, 2015.

“niggers”: Reid, Borderland, p. 158.

“probably the worst”: John Thor Dahlburg, “Ukraine Votes to Quit Soviet Union,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1991.

“The people in Kiev”: John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal (London: Penguin, 1994), pp. 53–54.

“one inch east”: “NATO’s Eastward Expansion,” Der Spiegel Online International, November 26, 2009.

“the most fateful error”: Tim Weiner and Barbra Crossette, “George F. Kennan Dies at 101,” New York Times, March 18, 2005.

“a verbal agreement”: Like nearly all great quotes, unless by Churchill, this one may have been misattributed.

“The Americans promised”: Adrian Blomfield and Mike Smith, “Gorbachev: US Could Start New Cold War,” Telegraph (London), May 6, 2008.

“Ukraine is in many ways”: Ivan Nechepurenko, “Gorbachev on Russia and Ukraine,” Moscow Times, November 21, 2014.

“false Leninist borders”: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), p. 90.

“If Ukraine were to move into NATO”: Megan Stack, “Why Russia Is Back,” Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2008.

“threatened to encourage”: “Putin Hints at Splitting Up Ukraine,” Moscow Times, April, 8, 2008.