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Quoted in Mark Franchetti, ‘Russian Threat to Reveal Putin’s Corrupt Aides’, Sunday Times , 24 April 2005.

Nick Paton Walsh, ‘Moscow Diary: Crime Pays’, Guardian , 2 April 2005.

Gordon Hahn, ‘Managed Democracy? Building Stealth Authoritarianism in St Petersburg’, Demoktratizatsiya , 12, no. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 195-231.

Paul Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin , Harcourt, 2000.

Russia’s GDP in 2004 was $458 billion.

Y. Osetinskaya, ‘Thirty-Six Billionaires’, Vedomosti , 13 May 2004.

Ibid.

Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, ‘Putin’s Militocracy’, Post-Soviet Affairs , 19, no. 4, (October-December 2003), pp. 289-306.

A. Cowell, The Terminal Spy , Doubleday, 2008, p. 48.

New York Review of Books , 13 April 2000.

Sunday Times , 23 December 2007.

Guardian , 13 April 2007.

Russian Interior Ministry News Bulletin, 11 December 2001.

‘Worldbeaters’, op. cit.

Quoted in Michael Freedman. ‘Dark Force’, Forbes , 21 May 2007.

Minutes of Evidence Before the Foreign Affairs Committee, HC 495-iii, 18 July 2007.

According to some accounts, there were more than three Russians at the meeting, at least initially. See Alan Cowell, The Terminal Spy , Doubleday, 2008, p. 8.

Ibid., p. 22.

Viv Groskop, interview with Marina Litvinenko, Observer , 3 June 2007.

Ibid.

Sunday AM , BBC1, 10 December 2006.

Thomas de Waal, ‘Murder Most Foul’, Washington Post , 27 July 2008.

Gary Busch, a London-based transportation consultant, quoted in Bryan Burroughs, ‘The Kremlin’s Long Shadow’, Vanity Fair , 1 April 2007.

Martin Sixsmith, The Litvinenko File , Macmillan, 2007, p. 168.

Tom Mangold, ‘The Litvinenko Mystery’, BBC Radio 4, 16 December 2006.

Ibid.

Sixsmith, op. cit., p. 305.

Ibid., pp. 244-5.

Moscow Times , 24 April 2007.

Newsnight , BBC2, 7 July 2008.

The group of three was joined by another man, but only as Litvinenko was leaving. The man’s role remains unclear but he was not contaminated with polonium and is not believed to be a suspect.

A. Goldfarb with M. Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident , Simon & Schuster, 2007, Part V: The Return of the KGB.

Bryan Burroughs, ‘The Kremlin’s Long Shadow’, Vanity Fair , 1 April 2007.

Quoted in C. Shulgan, ‘I, Spy – Russia’s Most Wanted’, Toronto Globe & Mail , 31 March 2007.

‘Litvinenko Poisoning: An Interview with Yevgeny Limarov’, Kommersant-Vlast , 25 June 2007.

Sixsmith, op. cit., p. 281.

Olga Kryshtanovskaya and Stephen White, ‘Putin’s Militocracy’, Post-Soviet Affairs , vol. 19, no. 4, 2003.

Sharon Werning Rivera and David Rivera, ‘The Russian Elite Under Putin: Militocratic or Bourgeois?’, Post-Soviet Affairs , vol. 22, no. 2, 2006, pp. 125-44.

Arkady Ostrovsky, ‘Yukos Crisis: Putin Oversees Big Rise in Influence of Security Apparatus’, Financial Times , 1 November 2003.

Ibid.

Quoted in Catherine Belton, Financial Times , 13 July 2007.

Keith Dovkants, ‘Abramovich Accused of £5 bn Shares Blackmail’, Evening Standard , 11 October 2007.

This account is as reported by Berezovsky. Abramovich and his representatives refused to comment.

Kevin Dowling, Sunday Times , 7 October 2007.

‘Berezovsky v Abramovich’, [2008] EWHC 1138 (Comm) (22 May 2008) paras 4(e) and 2; ‘Particulars of Claim’, Berezovsky v Abramovich, High Court, 8 January, 2008, p. 17.

Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins, Abramovich: The Billionaire from Nowhere , HarperCollins, 2004, p. 239.

Eric Reguly, Toronto Globe & Mail , 12 November 2007.

Luke Harding, Guardian , 24 July 2007.

Belton, op. cit.

Ibid.

Andrew Kramer, New York Times , 20 August 2006.

Ruling by Justice Clarke, ‘Cherney v Deripaska’ – 2008 EWHC 1530 (Comm), Queen’s Bench Division, High Court, 3 July 2008, para. 58.

Belton, op. cit.

Quoted in ruling by Justice Clarke, para. 9.

Ibid., para. 9.

Ibid., para. 166.

Sabrina Tavernise, ‘Handful of Corporate Raiders Transform Russia’s Economy’, New York Times , 13 August 2002.

Rusal always claimed that the dispute between Cherney and Deripaska was a matter for them and not the company, making the company’s main owner the sole defendant.

Ruling by Justice Langley, ‘Cherney v Deripaska’ – 2007 EWHC 965 (Comm) – Case No. 2006 Folio 1218, Queen’s Bench High Court, 3 May 2007, para. 39.

Ibid., para. 45.

Ruling by Justice Clarke, op. cit., para. 264.

Ibid., para. 47.

Ibid., para. 10.

Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, Guardian Blog, Guardian , 23 October 2008.

Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Nicola Smith, ‘The Secret World of Lord Freebie’, Sunday Times , 10 October 2008.

Washington Post , 25 January 2008.

John Helmer, ‘Deripaska Settles Big London Claim to Speed Aluminium IPO’, www.johnhelmer.net, May 2007.

Quoted in Toronto Star , 13 November 2007.

‘Jim Pettit: Immigration from Russia to the US Seems to Have Peaked and Is Now Falling’, Interfax , 2007.

Martin Sixsmith, The Litvinenko File , Macmillan, 2007, p. 135.