“I’m resigning”: “A man who’s seen society’s black underbelly Meduza meets ‘Anonymous International’.” Meduza, February 2, 2015.
“So, the only thing”: Ibid.
PART SEVEN: THE END AND AFTER“Russia is the only country”: Eduard Limonov, Drugaya Rossiya (Moscow: Yauza, 2004), p. 66.
CHAPTER 11: RUSSIA WITHOUT PUTIN, PUTIN WITHOUT RUSSIA“Putin will die”: Bloomberg TV Video, December 17, 2014.
“Gods don’t pass”: Richard Lourie, Russia Speaks, pp., 279–80. I tinkered with the translation, which was mine to begin with.
“What do they”: Dmitri Oreshkin, “What Would Happen to Russia If Putin Died,” Week, February 3, 2015.
“No Putin, no Russia”: “‘No Putin, No Russia’ says Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff,” Moscow Times, October 23, 2014.
“appeared as”: Ellen Barry, “Rousing Russia with a Phrase,” New York Times, December 9, 2011.
“I am”: Sean Guillory, “Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny,” Exiled, December 26, 2011.
“think more or less”: Donld Jensen, “Sergei Ivanov Returns to Center Stage,” IMR, April 2, 2013.
“I have never”: Ibid.
“Ivanov wants”: Ibid.
“law enforcement”: Luke Harding, “WikiLeaks Cables Claim Vladimir Putin Has Secret Wealth Abroad,” Guardian, December 11, 2010.
“I’m having a little soup”: Vladimir Bukovsky, Nasledniki Lavrentiya Beria (Moscow: Algoritm, 2013), p. 155. My translation.
“The Geneva Freeport”: Sam Knight, “The Bouvier Affair,” New Yorker, February 8, 2016.
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