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

Page 283“inciting enmity against a specific social group”: Olga Korol’, “Ex-press-sekretaryu prezidenta Tatarstana Murtazinu dali real’niy srok,” Komsomol’skaya Pravda, Nov. 26, 2009. http://www.kp.ru/online/news//577494/. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

Page 285“Why does everything in this country”: Boris Akunin blog entry, “I Could Not Sit Still,” Dec. 9, 2011. http://borisakunin.livejournal.com/45529.html. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

Page 289Protests were held today: Konstantin Benyumov, “Vstavay, strana ogromnaya! Mitingi protesta 10 dekabrya proshli v 99 gorodakh Rossii,” onair.ru. http://www.onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID_38499/. Accessed Dec. 13, 2011.

Page 289the government has no comment: “Dmitry Peskov ne kommentiruyet miting na Bolotnoy ploshchadi,” unsigned news item, www.gazeta.ru, Dec. 10, 2011. http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2011/12/10/n_2130194.shtml. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

Index

Abramovich, Roman, 255–56

Activism

Leningrad, 77–79, 82, 83, 86–88

pro-democracy, 83, 84, 87

See also People’s Front

Albright, Madeleine, 35

Alexandrov, Alexander, 179

All-Russia State Television, 185

Angleterre Hotel (Leningrad), 72–73, 75–76, 77

Apartment-block bombings (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218

Armenia, 3, 79, 81, 82, 84

Artemyev, Igor, 109

Assassinations, 219

FSB, 200, 201

Putin and, 226, 264

See also Murder; Poisoning

Aushev, Ruslan, 214, 215

Azerbaijan, 2, 79, 81, 102

Babitsky, Andrei, 32–36, 42, 161, 212

Baikalfinansgrup, 253, 254

Bakatin, Vadim, 93–94

Baku, 102

Baltic republics, 106, 133

Battle of the Angleterre, 76, 89

Belyaev, Alexander, 109

Berezovsky, Boris, 12, 26, 28–29, 41, 175, 188, 202, 209

Putin and, 15–21, 27, 31, 32, 42, 43, 131, 140, 171, 173–74, 182, 200–201, 257, 261

Berlin, 65, 67–68

Berzin, Yan, 53–54

Beslan school hostage incident, 189–90, 191–94, 212–17, 218, 221, 248–49

Bezrukov, Sergei, 97–98

Bills

lustration, 3, 4, 6

Putin and, 181, 182, 190

Bogdanov, Alexander, 135–36

Boldyrev, Yuri, 119, 121, 123–24, 136

Bolsheviks, 53, 178

Bombings

apartment-block (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218

Leningrad, Angleterre Hotel (1987), 72–73, 75–76, 77

Bonner, Yelena, 174–75

Borisenko, Viktor, 48, 57

Browder, William, 233–34, 235, 243–47, 248

Buhre, Paul, 81

Bush, George W., 229

Buynaksk, 23

Bystritsky, Andrei, 187–88

Censorship, 73, 82. See also Journalism; Media

Channel One (Russian Public Television), 17, 27, 172, 174

Chechens, 25, 41, 146–51, 212, 213, 217, 224–25

Chechnya, 5, 17, 23, 107, 145, 154–55, 209, 213, 214, 217, 221, 226

Putin and, 208, 220, 224, 231–33

wars, 25–26, 28, 32–35, 36, 146–48, 149–51, 155, 208, 210, 214, 218, 220, 229, 231–32

Cherkesov, Viktor, 160

Chochiev, Alan, 195

Chubais, Anatoly, 12, 20, 21, 22, 28, 31

CNN, 173

Committee for Constitutional Oversight, 98

Committee 2008, 186

Communism, 132–33. See also Soviet Union

Communist Party, 3, 4, 6, 20–21, 22, 60, 73, 77, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86–87, 88, 89, 92, 97, 104, 118, 124, 133, 227, 242–43

Companies, 239

corruption of, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248

Congress of People’s Deputies, 125–26

Constitution, Russian, 153, 154, 181

Corruption

of companies, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248

in elections, 182–83, 184–85, 186–88, 228, 267–68

of Putin, 254, 256–57, 258, 259–60, 261, 266, 270

in Russia, 248, 255–56, 258, 264, 266, 270

Coup (1991), 105–6, 107–14, 115–18, 119, 235

Courtyards, of Soviet apartment buildings, 46, 48

Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB (Goldfarb), 224

Decrees, 153–54, 181, 182

Democracy

Kasparov campaign to establish, 102, 190–91, 192–97

Putin and, 131, 132, 134, 181–82, 184, 187, 190–91

Russia and, 131, 132, 134, 181–89, 227–28

Democratic Russia, 5

Democrats (Russia), 110, 115, 126, 227

KGB and, 98

Detention cells/camps, 74, 149

Discussion groups, Leningrad, 76, 77, 80

Dissidents, 61, 72, 73, 126. See also “Informals”

Dorenko, Sergei, 171–73

Dozen Knives at My Back, A (Sobchak), 141

Drel, Anton, 240

Dresden, 62–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70

Dresden University of Technology, 64

Drozdov, Yuri, 97

Dubeykovskaya, Yana, 184, 186

Dubov, Yuli, 257

Duma, 6, 20, 22, 180, 203, 228. See also Parliament

Dzasokhov, Alexander, 214

Echo Moskvy, 1, 2, 204

Economic crisis (1998), 181, 236–37

Economy, 236

Illarionov and, 230–33

Putin and, 230, 231, 232, 233, 241, 253–54, 259

Russian, 255

St. Petersburg, 134–35, 139

Elections

corruption in, 182–83, 184–85, 186–88, 228, 267–68

journalism and, 228–29

1989, 83–84

parliamentary (2003), 227–28, 243

presidential (2000), 263

presidential (2004), 183–88, 263

presidential (2008), 263

Putin presidential candidacy, 19–22, 27, 28, 29, 30–31, 36, 41–42, 127, 142, 145, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 153, 183, 184–85, 186, 187–88, 263, 270

Putin’s changes to, 190

Estonia, 106, 133