Richard Lourie: Putin

Ukraine and

Northern Sea Route (NSR)

Northwest Passage

Norway

nuclear weapons, reactors, and waste

and Arctic

and China

and floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs)

and Kaliningrad

and Kazakhstan

and KGB

and NATO expansionism

and Russia without Putin

and Sakharov

and stealing atomic secrets

and Sudden Nuclear Missile Attack (SNMA)

and Ukraine

and U.S.-Soviet relations

Nuremburg trials

Obama, Barack

oil

Arctic and

Chechnya and

China and

comparisons between gas and

Crimea and

exploration for

in history

Kazakhstan and

Khodorkovsky and

nano project and

price of

privatizing of

Putin’s failures and

Putin’s reelection and

Russia and

Soviet Union and

spills of

oligarchs

Berezovsky and

and criticisms of Putin

Khodorkovsky and

and Loans for Shares

presidential elections and

Putin’s relationship with

and Russia without Putin

and threats to Putin’s power

Oligarchs, The (Hoffman)

Olympic Games

OMON

O’Reilly, Dave

Oreshkin, Dmitri

Orlov, Count Alexei

ORT (TV Channel 1)

Owen, Sir Robert

paganism

Pakistan

Panama Papers

Panetta, Leon

perestroika

Pereyaslav

Petofi, Sandor

Petrograd

see also Leningrad

Petrostate (Goldman)

Philosophical Letters (Chaadayev)

“Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Feynman)

Poland

gas and

Kaliningrad and

national poet of

Ukraine and

Politkovskaya, Anna

Polo, Marco

Potsdam Agreement

Prague Spring

Pribylovsky, Vladimir

Prokhanov, Alexander

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The

Proton rocket crash

Pushkin, Alexander

Pussy Riot

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich:

accused of pedophilia

alcohol consumed by

aliases of

alleged corruption of

ambitions of

authoritarianism of

awards and honors of

baptism of

birth of

boxing and judo of

bribe refused by

childhood and adolescence of

children of

on collaborators and snitches

communal apartment life of

counterintelligence work of

criminal investigation of

criticisms of

cyberpolitics and

death of

demeanor of

demonstrations against

disappearances of

on economic diversity

education and training of

electoral demographics of

enemies and rivals of

failures of

finances of

foreign intelligence and relations work of

on future

German language studies of

hybrid warfare of

illegal agent screening of

injuries of

inner circle of

as insulting

leadership skills of

lion tamer role of

as Little Volodya

loyalty and trust important to

marriage and married life of

media seizure of

misreading of

mission of

oath of office taken by

order and control important to

in outing himself

paranoia of

parents of

personal guard of

personal nightmare scenario of

physical appearance of

political assassinations and

popularity of

power and authority of

predicting behavior of

presidency handed to

presidential campaigns of

presidential inaugurations of

prime minister post offered to

reading of

on recentralization

relations between authoritarian leaders and

rise to power of

Russia without

sense of danger of

speeches of

statism of

street fighting of

successors to

on television

undercover work of

weight gain of

working class background of

worldview and geopolitics of

Putina, Lyudmila

East Germany and

husband’s finances and

married life of

Qaddafi, Muammar

Reagan, Ronald

rebirth, myth of

Rebuilding Russia (Solzhenitsyn)

Red Banner Institute

Red Notice (Browder)

“Reflections” (Sakharov)

Repin, Vladimir

“Restoration of Order, The” (Baranczak)

Revenge of Geography, The (Kaplan)

Rice, Condoleezza

Rising Tide (Weir and Boybe)

Rockefeller, John D.

Rogozin, Dmitri

Roldugin, Sergei

Rolling Stones, The

Romania

Rosneft

Rusnano

Russia Hand, The (Talbott)

Russian Empire

China and

collapse of

developmental dynamic lacked by

Gogol and

iconoclasm and

militarism of

national poet of

oil and

Ukraine and

Russian Federation:

ambitions of

Arctic and

authoritarianism lite of

centralization of

Chechen wars with

China and

collapse of

comparisons between Soviet Union and

comparisons between U.S. and

Constitution of

creation of

Crimea annexed by

defectors from

demographobia of

drunkenness in

economy of

expansionism of

Family rule of

French relations with

future of

gas and

gold holdings of

holidays of

humiliations of

hybrid warfare of

iconoclasm and

internal enemies of

international sanctions against

Internet and

Japanese relations with

Kazakhstan and

military equipment industry of

national flag and anthem of

oil and

organized crime in

paranoia of

political assassinations of

population of

presidential elections in

without Putin

Putin’s failures and

regular army of

resurgence of

rule of law in

sciences and education in

Syrian incursion of

Tajikistan and

as threat to West

trade of

transition from Soviet Union to

Ukraine and

U.S. military ships and aircraft buzzed by

U.S. relations with

violence and demonstrations in

and vulnerability of Kaliningrad

Russian Idea

Russian Idea, The (Berdyaev)

Russian Revolution

Russians:

carelessness of

as iconoclasts

messianic consciousness of

in myth and history

polarization of

survival of

Ukraine and

Russians in the Arctic, The (Armstrong)

“Russia on the Threshold” (Putin)

Russo-Japanese War

Ryzhkov, Vladimir

St. Andrew Hall

St. Basil’s Cathedral

St. Petersburg, see Leningrad

Sakharov, Andrei

arrest and internal exile of

and collapse of Soviet Union

dissidence of

electoral office of

KGB and

Putin on

Salye, Marina

Sambo

samizdat

Sanders, Bernie

Saudi Arabia

Schultz, Debbie Wasserman

Sea of Okhotsk

secret service, Russian

Serbs, Serbia

Sevastopol

Shadkhan, Igor

Shamil, Imam

Shevchenko, Arkady

Shevchenko, Taras

Shevtsova, Lilia

shock therapy

Shoigu, Sergei

Shvets, Yuri

Siberia

China and

oil and

and Russia without Putin

World War II and

Silk Road

Sinyavsky, Andrei

Skuratov, Yury

Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)

Slovenia

Small, Andrew

Smolny

Snowden, Edward

Sobchak, Anatoly

Chubais’s relationship with

and coup against Gorbachev

mayoralty of

Putin’s KGB connections and

Putin’s relationship with

socialism

Prague Spring and

scientific

and transition from Soviet Union to Russian Federation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

attempt on life of

and collapse of Soviet Union