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“information”: Charles Clover, “Russia and China Learn from Each Other as Military Ties Deepen,” ft.com>world>asia-pacific, June 24, 2016.

“East Turkestan”: “China Irked by Dalai Lama’s ‘East Turkestan’ Comment,” Tibetan Review, July 22, 2013.

“his intent of splitting”: Ibid.

“unsinkable”: Joseph Bosco,“Taiwan and Strategic Security,” Diplomat, May 15, 2015.

“The Kazakhs never”: Farangis Najbullah, “Putin Downplays Kazakh Independence, Sparks Angry Reaction,” RFE/RL, September 3, 2014.

“a state in a territory”: Ian Traynor “Kazakhstan Is Latest Russia Neighbor to Feel Putin’s Chilly Nationalist Rhetoric,” Guardian, September 1, 2014.

“actually part”: “Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the New Russia,” Forbes interview, August 5, 2008.

“Mr. President”: Jonathan Aiken, Nazarbayev and the Making of Kazakhstan (London: Continuum, 2009), p. 107.

“very much”: Ibid., p. 62.

“Central Asia’s heart”: Katrina Swett and M. Zuhdi Jasser, “CIS Has a Poor Record on Religious Freedom,” Moscow Times, August 16, 2013.

“with the aim of avoiding”: Joshua Kucera, “Kazakhstan’s Islamist Threat,” Diplomat, August 15, 2011.

“the slaves of non-believers”: Deidre Tynan, “Central Asia Is a Sitting Duck for Islamic State,” Moscow Times, June 15, 2015.

“Who rules”: Robert Kaplan, The Revenge of Geography (New York: Random House, 2012), p. 74.

“Kazakhstan is”: Ibid., p. 185.

PART SIX: THE TWILIGHT OF PARANOIA

“Everything that is connected with Russia”: Victor Davidoff, “Gays Are New Enemy No. 1,” Moscow Times, June 23, 2013.

CHAPTER 10: HOW VLADIMIR PUTIN LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE INTERNET

“Russia is a military state”: Edvard Radzinsky, Alexander II, the Last Great Tsar (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005), p. 53.

“imitation democracies”: Baker and Glasser, Kremlin Rising, p. 376.

“The trouble with”: International Affairs 36 (1960), p. 4.

“The best thing”: Danny Hakim, “Once Celebrated in Russia, the Programmer Pavel Durov Chooses Exile,” New York Times, December 2, 2014.

“envisioned”: Ibid.

“I like to”: Ibid.

“to upload … very careless”: Ibid.

“my hero”: John Thornhill, “Lunch with the FT: Pavel Durov,” Financial Times, July 3, 2015.

“In such moments”: Chris Boyette, “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg Offers Edward Snowden a Job,” CNN Money, August 5, 2013.

“Putin has signed”: Andrew Roth, “Putin Signs New Anti-Terror Law in Russia. Edward Snowden Is Upset,” Washington Post, July 7, 2016.

“total traitor”: David Sherfinski, “Donald Trump: Putin Would Return ‘Total Traitor’ Snowden If I’m President,” Washington Times, July 9, 2015.

“the style of”: Andrew Higgins, “For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard,” New York Times, November 10, 2014.

“CIA project”: Ewen MacAskill, “Putin Calls Internet a ‘CIA Project’ Renewing Fears of Web Breakup,” Guardian, April 24, 2014.

“She set the tone”: Karl Vick, “Is Putin Taking Sides?” Time, August 8, 2016.

“banana republic”: Ilya Khrennikov and Stepan Kravchenko, “Putin’s New Internet Czar Wants Apple and Google to Pay More Taxes,” Bloomberg Technology, February 8, 2016.

“When I served”: “Meet Vladimir Putin’s new Internet advisor,” Meduza, December 24, 2015.

“Now the Internet”: Ibid.

“We are breeding”: Khrennikov and Kravchenko, “Putin’s New Internet Czar.”

“Confidential”: “Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hacked’ Benghazi Emails Sent to RT,” RT, March 19, 2013.

“I write”: Ludmilla Alexeyeva, Soviet Dissent (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985), p. 12.

“Our parents”: Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr Nekrich, Utopia in Power (New York: Summit Books, 1986), p. 544.

“I am pretty sure”: Claire Berlinski, “Update on the Bukovsky Trial,” Ricochet, July 28, 2016.

“I have concluded”: Sir Robert Owen, The Litvinenko Inquiry (London, 2016), p. 244.

“I’m not afraid”: Claire Berlinski, “Did Britain Fall into Putin’s Trap in Prosecuting a Russian Dissident?” National Review, May 11, 2016.

“the first”: Ellen Nakashima, “Russia Hackers Targeted Arizona Election System,” Washington Post, August 29, 2016.