Steve LeVine - Putin's Labyrinth

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The new Russia is marching in an alarming direction. Emboldened by escalating oil wealth and newfound prominence as a world power, Russia, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, has veered back toward the authoritarian roots planted in Imperial/Czarist times and firmly established during the Soviet era. Though Russia has a new president, Dmitri Medvedev, Putin remains in control, rendering the democratic reforms of the post-Soviet order irrelevant. Now, in Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a penetrating account of modern Russia under the repressive rule of an all-powerful autocrat. LeVine portrays the growth of a “culture of death”—from targeted assassinations of the state’s enemies to the Kremlin’s indifference when innocent hostages are slaughtered.
Drawing on new interviews with eyewitnesses and the families of victims, LeVine documents the bloodshed that has stained Putin’s two terms as president. Among the incidents chronicled in these pages: The 2002 terrorist takeover of a crowded Moscow theater—which led to the government gassing the building, and the deaths of more than a hundred terrified hostages–seen here from new angles, through the riveting words of those who survived; and the murder of courageous investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, shot in the elevator of her apartment building on Putin’s birthday, purportedly as a malicious “gift” for the president from supporters. Finally, a shocking story that made international headlines–the 2006 death of defector Alexander Litvinenko in London—is dramatized as never before. LeVine traces the steps of this KGB-spy-turned-dissident on his way to being poisoned with polonium-210, a radioactive isotope. And in doing so, LeVine is granted a rare series of interviews with a KGB defector who was nearly killed in strangely similar circumstances fifty years earlier. Through LeVine’s exhaustive research, we come to know the victims as real people, not just names in brief news accounts of how they died.
Putin’s Labyrinth

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When his father, ValterValter Litvinenko, quoted in Poison Plot: The Killing of a Spy, CNN, December 4, 2006.

“expecting an attack, an assassination”Yevgeni Limarev, interview with Red TV (Moscow), December 23, 2006.

“Are you in town to see”Author interview with Felshtinsky.

“transfer 100,000 pounds”Quote and detail from Spiegel Online, December 11, 2006.

“I’m about to get information”Akhmed Zakayev, speaking in VPRO documentary of 2007.

Litvinenko had served as a sourceMaxim Litvinenko, Alexander Litvinenko’s brother, quoted by Reuters, January 5, 2007.

Scaramella handed overThe e-mail was provided to Scaramella by Yevgeny Limarev, a Russian émigré who lives in France.

who just the night beforeAuthor interview with Berezovsky.

The two had agreed thatLitvinenko’s cut is according to Andrei Lugovoi, quoted by Mark Franchetti in The Sunday Times.

Chapter 10: Polonium

“This is the No. 1 security issue”Peter Castenfelt quoted in USA Today, July 28, 2006. The ads appeared in the newspapers on the previous day.

He turned into the Pine BarDetail on Norberto Andrade and the serving of Litvinenko’s tea from Evening Standard, November 6, 2007. Detail on the drinks and cigar smoking from Spiegel Online, December 11, 2006. Detail on Lugovoi’s family’s plans from The Washington Post, December 13, 2006.

He went to bedDetail on Litvinenko’s condition from Marina Litvinenko interview with Natalia Gevorkian, Kommersant, December 21, 2006. In terms of the poisoning itself, the interview was, in my opinion, the most complete of dozens in which Marina participated. In its main points, it coincided with the other interviews she gave. Since the thrust of her comments was virtually identical in all her interviews, I relied on those published accounts and skipped over the subject of the poisoning entirely when we twice met, so as to avoid repetition. This allowed me to cover topics that other interviewers had not.

“Look,” he told the reporterAlexander Litvinenko interviewed by BBC Russian Service, November 11, 2006.

“It was so strange”Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.

“Ex-spy’s poisoning bears hallmarks” The Daily Telegraph, November 21, 2006.

“Different name, same tactics” Guardian, November 21, 2006.

“Exact Cause of Ex-K.G.B. Agent’s” The New York Times, November 22, 2006.

“looked just like a ghost”Andrei Nekrasov, quoted in VPRO documentary of 2007.

“like a seventy-year-old”Goldfarb and Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident, 329.

“Oh, Marinochka, I love you”Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.

“Father, I’ve converted. I’m a Muslim”Valter Litvinenko quoted in VPRO documentary of 2007.

“Come quickly”Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.

“You have shown yourself to”Alexander Goldfarb reading Alexander Litvinenko’s statement, November 23, 2006.

“You have to understand that”Marina Litvinenko interview with Kommersant.

“Marina, this is Andrei Lugovoi”Ibid.

“He joined the FSB from”Author interview with Josef Linder, April 18, 2007.

“Negative. The most negative.”Author interview with Mikhail Golovatov, April 17, 2007.

“offer no indication that this”Vladimir Putin, official transcript of news conference following a Russia–European Union summit meeting, November 24, 2006.

Novelist Martin Cruz SmithCruz Smith quoted in The Wall Street Journal Europe, December 29, 2006.

“Let’s get one thing”Author interview with Boris Volodarsky, February 28, 2007.

“a typical KGB operation”Author interview with Oleg Gordievsky.

“It’s quite possible each guy”Author interview with Professor Nick Priest. I interviewed Priest numerous times in person and by phone. This interview took place February 15, 2007.

“That’s Russian”Author interview with a former MI6 agent who asked not to be identified by name because of a condition placed upon him when retiring from the agency, February 9, 2007.

“Lugovoi has often asked me”Mark Franchetti, The Sunday Times (London), November 25, 2007.

Epilogue

As Vladimir Putin’s presidencyDetail on the dive from National Geographic News online, August 3, 2007.

“The incumbent president is an”Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.

As the story goesSome said that in effect Putin himself was chairman of Gazprom, pulling the strings behind the scenes. That may have been true—outsiders could not know for certain what went on in the Kremlin.

“no state can be pleased”Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.

But Putin remarked publiclyQuoted in the Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2008.

And Medvedev agreedQuoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.

“Russia needs the maximum”Dmitri Medvedev quoted in Financial Times, March 24, 2008.

“It was completely incredible”Quotes from author interview with Marina Litvinenko.

“Marina is making money from”Quote from Sonya Litvinenko interview with Anna Chernyakovskaya, author’s assistant.

“to speak with her right”Author interview with Marina Litvinenko.

By March 2008, MarinaDetail and quote from Marina Litvinenko from The Times (London), March 27, 2008.

In the same vein, Alex GoldfarbDetail and quote from Alex Goldfarb from Reuters, February 28, 2008.

“He had no reason to”Ilya Bulavinov, Kommersant, April 10, 2007.

“I couldn’t decide if he”Yelena Tregubova quoted by BBC News online, November 21, 2003.

“They would have found a way”Yelena Tregubova quoted by the Daily Mail (London), April 4, 2008.

But her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta Detail and quote from Novaya Gazeta, April 2, 2008.

Before Anna’s murder, a doctorDetail on how Vera decided to name her daughter from author’s interview with Vera Politkovskaya.

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTE ON SOURCES

This book is largely the result of interviews conducted in Moscow and London during 2007, buttressed by reporting during the eleven years I was based in the former Soviet Union, from 1992 to 2003. I relied heavily on archival material—books, contemporarily written articles and films—for the historical passages and also to inform the account of present events. The deaths described in the book are among the most-chronicled events of our time, and I am grateful for the excellent work of colleagues. The sources for the quotations I have used are indicated in the notes, and work on which I relied informatively is listed below.

Books

Albats, Yevgenia. The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia Past, Present and Future. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994.

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