Richard Lourie - Putin

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Winston Churchill, “The Russian Enigma,” BBC Broadcast, October 1, 1939. The Churchill Society London.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), p. 18.

“Full transcript: FBI Director James Comey testifies on Russian interference in 2016 election,” The Washington Post, March 20, 2017, p. 3.

Ibid., p. 9.

Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, “Trump’s Weary Defenders Face Fresh Worries,” The New York Times, March 20, 2017.

Ibid.

Full transcript, p. 2.

Full text of Christopher Steele dossier published by Buzzfeed, January 10, 2017, unpaginated.

Glenn Garvin, “Donald Trump, the Unwanted Palm Beach Mansion and the Russian Fertilizer King,” The Miami Herald, March 7, 2017.

Eric Shawn, “Felix Sater, man at center of Ukraine plan, said he was only trying to help.” Fox News Politics, February 20, 2017.

Glenn Kessler, “Trump’s Claim that ‘I Have Nothing to Do with Russia,’” The Washington Post, July 27, 2016.

Megan Twohey, Scott Shane, “A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates,” The New York Times, February 19, 2017.

Christopher Steele dossier, Buzzfeed.

Andrew E. Kramer, “Paul Manafort, Former Trump Campaign Chief, Faces New Allegations in Ukraine,” The New York Times, March 20, 2017.

“Here’s the transcript of Trump’s repeated evasions on whether his campaign had contacts with Russian officials,” The Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2017.

James Miller, “Trump and Russia: All the Mogul’s Men,” Daily Beast, November 6, 2016.

Ibid.

Jeremy Diamond, “Timeline: Donald Trump’s Praise for Vladimir Putin:, CNN Politics, July 29, 2016.

Jeff Horowitz, Chad Day, “Manafort Had Plan to Benefit Putin Government,” Associated Press, Bloomberg News/Politics, March 22, 2017.

John R. Schindler, “The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins,” Observer.com, February 2, 2017.

Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, “Why Letting Go, for Trump, Is No Small or Simple Task,” The New York Times, March 21, 2017.

Nicholas Kristof, “A Smell of Treason in the Air,” The New York Times, March 23, 2017.

Full transcript, Washington Post, p. 6.

Ibid., p. 2.

Mark Galeotti, “Putin’s Hydra: Inside Russia’s Intelligence Services,” European Council on Foreign Affairs, ecfr.eu.

Nikolai Petrov, “How Putin Changed the Balance of Power Among Russia’s Elite,” Moscow Times, April 15, 2016.

Mikhail Fishman, “A Bigger Bludgeon,” Moscow Times , April 14, 2016.

Pete Earley, Comrade J (New York: Berkeley Books, 2009), p. 299.

Ibid., p. 301.

“John Kerry: We Could Have Shot Down Russian Jets ‘Buzzing’ US Warship,” Guardian , April 14, 2016.

Pavel Felgenhauer, “Russian Jets Fly Close to US Ship and Recon Aircraft over Baltic Sea,” Eurasia Daily Monitor , April 21, 2016.

“US Armor Paraded 300 Meters from Russian Border,” RT News, March 23, 2015.

www.freekaliningrad.ru/tsukanov-intelligence-services-of-the-west

Sergey Sukhaov, “Kaliningrad as a New Ideological Battlefield Between Russia and the West,” Eurasia Daily Monitor , April 25, 2016.

Ibid.

“Putin’s Personal Army,” Moscow Times , April 7, 2016.

Lisa Ferdinando, “Carter Outlines Security Challenges, Warns Against Sequestration,” DoD News , March 17, 2016.

Julian Barnes, “NATO’s Breedlove Calls for Sharper Focus on Russia Ahead of Departure,” Wall Street Journal , May 1, 2016.

Ibid.

The Rolling Stones, “Street Fighting Man,” Beggars Banquet .

Vladimir Putin, First Person (New York: Public Affairs, 2000), p. 81.

Robert Gates, Quotation of the Day, New York Times , September 20, 2008.

Richard Lourie, Russia Speaks (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 189.

Ben Judah, Fragile Empire (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013), p. 20.

Putin, First Person , p. 6.

Ibid., p. 61.

Ibid., p. 10.

Ibid.