The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

Page 57“He says, ‘Let’s go’”: Ibid., pp. 287–88.

Page 57“Once I tried”: Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

Page 58“That’s how it happened”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 58a tiny minority: Sergei Zakharov, “Brachnost’ v Rossii: Istoriya i sovremennost’,” Demoskop Weekly, Oct. 16–29, 2006, pp. 261–62. http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2006/0261/tema02.php. Accessed Feb. 27, 2011.

Page 58“One evening”: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 59such was his cover: Ibid.

Page 59“I was most amazed”: Ibid.

Page 60“Only the Central Committee”: Vadim Bakatin, Izbavleniye ot KGB (Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 45–46.

Page 61Article 190: Bakatin, pp. 32–33.

Page 61constant surveillance and harassment: Filipp Bobkov, KGB i vlast (Moscow: Veteran MP, 1995).

Page 61thoroughly familiar with the way it was organized: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 61A perfectly laudatory memoir: Vladimir Usol’tsev, Sosluzhivets (Moscow: Eksmo, 2004), p. 186.

Page 61“It was an entirely unremarkable school”: Ibid.

Page 61Counterintelligence officers in Moscow: Bobkov.

Page 61assigned to the intelligence unit: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 62did his job well: Ibid.

Page 63a little Stasi world: Ludmila Putina, quoted ibid.

Page 63Putin drank beer: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 64Putin was assigned: Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov (former KGB agent in Berlin), Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 64Putin and his two colleagues: Usol’tsev, pp. 70–74; author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 64small monthly hard-currency payments: Usol’tsev, p. 36.

Page 65they made a lot more money: Ibid., p. 30.

Page 65so unreachable for someone like Putin: Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 65a former RAF member: Author interview with the man, Bavaria, August 18, 2011; he asked that his name not be printed.

Page 65every other officer … had his own office: Usol’tsev, p. 62.

Page 66Former agents estimate: Usol’tsev, p. 105; author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 66Putin’s biggest success: Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.

Page 66The KGB leadership: Bobkov.

Page 66a public statement condemning secret-police crimes: O. N. Ansberg and A. D. Margolis, eds., Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ Leningrada v gody perestroiki, 1985–1991: Sbornik materialov (St. Petersburg: Serebryany Vek, 2009), p. 192.

Page 68demonstrations in East Germany continued: Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke, Dresden and the Paradoxes of Memory in History (New York: Routledge, 2001).

Page 69shoving papers into a wood-burning stove: Gevorkyan et al.

Page 70“I was scared to go into stores”: Ludmila Putina, quoted ibid.

Page 70“They cannot do this”: Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.

FOUR. ONCE A SPY

Page 74“The people of our generation”:Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 502.

Page 75“stop misinforming people”: Sergei Vasilyev, memoirs published in the Obvodny Times, vol. 4, no. 22 (April 2007), p. 8, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 447.

Page 75“It seems, after the dust”: Alexander Vinnikov, Tsena svobody, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 449.

Page 76“We all found one another”: Yelena Zelinskaya, “Vremya ne zhdet,” Merkuriy, vol. 3 (1987), quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, pp. 41–42.

Page 76a living page: Vasilyev, quoted in Obshchestvennaya zhizn’, p. 447.