Page 32 “Berezovsky would keep calling me”:Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.
Page 33 “He was working directly for the enemy”:Pavel Gutiontov, “Zauryadnoye delo.” http://www.ruj.ru/authors/gut/100303_4.htm. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 34 “This is February 6, 2000”:Transcript of a Feb. 9, 2000, NTV newscast. http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539. Accessed May 7, 2011.
Page 35 attempt to break free:Andrei Babitsky, Na voine , transcripts of Russian-language recordings of a book manuscript prepared for a French publisher. http://somnenie.narod.ru/ab/ab6.html. Accessed May 7, 2011.
Page 35 face charges of forgery:Transcript of Andrei Babitsky’s press conference on March 1, 2000. http://archive.svoboda.org/archive/hr/2000/ll.030100-3.asp. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 35 probably been no exchange:Oleg Panfilov, Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo , chapter 3. http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 35 “the information he transmitted”:Panfilov, Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo.
Page 35 funded by an act of Congress:Broadcasting Board of Governors FAQ. http://www.bbg.gov/about/faq/#q6. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 35 issued a statement condemning:Congressional Research Service report, “Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments,” updated May 3, 2000. http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL30389.pdf. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 36 “The Babitsky story ” :Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.
Page 37 returned to the car and left:For the chronology of events in Ryazan, I have relied primarily on Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu , 2nd ed. (New York: Liberty Publishing, 2004), pp. 65–108, which combines many press reports with original reporting, and on Ryazanski sahar: Nezavisimoye rassledovaniye s Nikolayem Nikolayevym , the NTV television program that aired on March 24, 2000. http://video.yandex.ru/users/provorot1/view/54/. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 38 in at least one of the Moscow explosions:“13 sentyabrya v Rossii—den’ traura po pogibshim ot vzryvov,” an unsigned news story on Gazeta.ru, Sept. 10, 1999. http://gazeta.lenta.ru/daynews/10-09-1999/10mourn.htm. Accessed May 8, 2011.
Page 38 “The more alert we are”:ITAR-TASS, as cited by Litvinenko and Felshtinsky, FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu.
Page 39 “First, there was no explosion”: Ryazanski sahar .
THREE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A THUG
Page 43 the Siege of Leningrad:Michael Jones, Leningrad: State of Siege (New York: Basic Books, 2008).
Page 44 “Imagine a soldier”:Ales’ Adamovich and Daniil Granin, Blokadnaya kniga . http://lib.rus.ec/b/212340/read. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
Page 44 Burzhuikas :Harrison Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (New York: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. vii–viii.
Page 44 a wood-burning stove in every room:Oleg Blotsky, Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni (Moscow: Mezhdunarodniye Otnosheniya), p. 24.
Page 44 His parents… had survived the siege:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 45 twice as many women:Yuri Polyakov, Valentina Zhitomirskaya, and Natalya Aralovets, “‘Demograficheskoye ekho’ voyny,” published in the online journal Skepsis . http://scepsis.ru/library/id_1260.html. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
Page 45 given him up for adoption:Irina Bobrova, “Kto pridumal Putinu gruzinskiye korni?” Moskovski komsomolets , June 13, 2006. http://www.compromat.ru/page_18786.htm. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
Page 45 inclined to believe the story:Author interview with Natalia Gevorkyan, June 2008.
Page 46 the Putins’ apartment:Childhood friend Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni , pp. 72, 89.
Page 47 a striking assertion:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 47 the Putins emerge as practically rich:Yevgeniy Putin, quoted in Blotsky, p. 46.
Page 48 “Some courtyard this was”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, pp. 68–69.
Page 48 “ If anyone ever insulted him”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 68.
Page 49 “The labor [shop] teacher”:Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 67.
Page 49 “Why did you not get inducted”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 50 as a sixth-grader:Teacher Vera Gurevich, quoted ibid.
Page 50 “ We were playing”:Grigory Geilikman, quoted in Blotsky, p. 160.
Page 50 “We were in eighth grade”:Nikolai Alekhov, quoted in Blotsky, p. 161.
Page 50 “He once invited me”:Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
Page 51 “Someone picked on him”:Ibid.
Page 52 hand-to-hand combat:Blotsky, p. 259.
Page 52 theme song from the miniseries:“S vyslannymi iz SshA razvedchikami vstretilsya Vladimir Putin,” July 25, 2010. http://lenta.ru/news/2010/07/25/spies/. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.
Page 52 “When I was in ninth grade”:Blotsky, p. 199.
Page 53 subversive troops:Y. Popov, “Diversanty Stalina.” http://militera.lib.ru/h/popov_au2/01.html. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.
Page 53 one of only four survivors:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 53 “some intelligence officer for sure”:Ibid.
Page 54 “A man came out”:Blotsky, pp. 199–200.
Page 54 “He surprised everyone”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 55 Putin graduated from secondary school:Blotsky, p. 155.
Page 55 number of cars: http://www.ref.by/refs/1/31164/1.html. Mikhail Blinkin, “Avtomobil’ v gorode: Osobennosti natsionalnogo puti,” http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/arc/02_2010/42-45%20Blinkin.pdf. Accessed Oct. 27, 2011.
Page 55 gave the car to their son:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 56 Putin made a thousand rubles:Ibid.
Page 56 an overcoat for himself:Gevorkyan et al.; Blotsky, pp. 226–27.
Page 56 “All through my university years”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 57 “not particularly outgoing”:Blotsky, p. 287.
Page 57 “He says, ‘Let’s go’”:Ibid., pp. 287–88.
Page 57 “Once I tried”:Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
Page 58 “That’s how it happened”:Gevorkyan et al.
Page 58 a tiny minority:Sergei Zakharov, “Brachnost’ v Rossii: Istoriya i sovremennost’,” Demoskop Weekly , Oct. 16–29, 2006, pp. 261–62. http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2006/0261/tema02.php. Accessed Feb. 27, 2011.
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