Masha Gessen - The Man Without a Face

Page 120 “I believed at the time”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 122 a simple kickback scheme: Otchet rabochey deputatskoy gruppy Komiteta po mezhdunarodnym i vneshnim svyazyam, postoyannykh komissiy po prodovolstviyu, torgovle i sfere bytovykh uslug Sankt-Peterburgskogo gorodskogo Soveta narodnykh deputatov po voprosu kvotirovaniya i litsenzirovaniya eksporta i importa tovarov na territorii Sankt-Peterburga , with a resolution of May 8, 1992, #88; Marina Salye, “Putin—prezident korrumpirovannoy oligarkhii!” obtained from the Glasnost Foundation in Moscow, March 18, 2000.

Page 122 “I think the city”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 122 “The point of the whole operation”:Salye, “Putin—prezident.”

Page 123 a three-page letter:“Analiz normativnykh dokumentov, izdavayemykh merom i vitse-merom S. Peterburga,” dated Jan. 15, 1992, bears the notation: “Given to B. Yeltsin on 15 January 1992.”

Page 124 Sobchak was handing out apartments:See, for example, “Rasporyazheniye mera Sankt-Peterburga o predostavlenii zhiloy ploshchadi Kurkovoy B. A.,” 08.12.1992, #1107-R; and “Rasporyazheniye mera Sankt-Peterburga o predostavlenii zhiloy ploshchadi Stepashinu S. V.,” 16.12.1992, #1147-R.

Page 125 “And here are the papers”:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 125 “This was different”:Ibid.

Page 126 the Supreme Soviet had a presidium: http://1993.sovnarkom.ru/TEXT/SPRAVCHN/VSOVET/vsovet1.htm. Accessed April 2, 2011.

Page 127 a decree dissolving the St. Petersburg city council:Besik Pipia, “Lensovetu stuknulo 10 let,” Nezavisimaya gazeta , April 5, 2000. http://www.ng.ru/politics/2000-04-05/3_lensovet.html. Accessed April 2, 2011.

Page 127 in favor of supporting Putin:Author interview with Marina Salye, March 14, 2010.

Page 129 “a bureaucratic police regime”:“Pokhmelkin, Yushenkov, Gologlev i Rybakov vyshli iz SPS,” unsigned news story, newsru.com. http://www.newsru.com/russia/14jan2002/sps.html. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 129 Yushenkov was shot:“V Moskve ubit deputat Gosdumy Sergei Yushenkov,” unsigned news story, newsru.com. http://www.newsru.com/russia/17apr2003/killed.html. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 129 “Sometimes, when we journalists”:Masha Gessen, “Pamyati Sergeya Yushenkova,” polit.ru, April 18,2003. http://www.polit.ru//world/2003/04/18/615774.html. Accessed May 8, 2011.

Page 132 “could be removed by those very same”:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 133 a European Union event in Hamburg:Vladimir Churov, quoted ibid.

Page 134 The city’s economy was in shambles:Anatoly Sobchak, Dyuzhina nozhey v spinu (Moscow: Vagrius/Petro-News, 1999), p. 72.

Page 135 relative levels of standard of living:Original reporting for Masha Gessen, “Printsip Pitera,” Itogi , Sept. 5, 2000.

Page 135 “There was a concert”:Alexander Bogdanov, interview, Obshchestvennaya zhizn’ , pp. 431–32.

Page 136 “Not once during this time”:Radio Liberty interview with Yuri Boldyrev, March 9, 2010. http://www.svobodanews.ru/articleprintview/1978453.html. Accessed Dec. 1, 2011.

Page 137 “There was a show”:Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Anna Sharogradskaya, June 1, 2008.

Page 138 a brutal attempt on his life:Sobchak, Dyuzhina , pp. 73–78.

Page 138 giving out loans and grants:Boris Vishnevsky, “Kto i zachem kanoniziruyet Sobchaka?” Radio Svoboda, Feb. 25, 2010. http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1968322.html. Accessed Oct. 27, 2011.

Page 139 Almost all the building’s residents:“Lyudi oni horoshiye, no kvartirny vopros ih isportil…” Na strazhe Rodiny , August 14, 1996; Brian Whitmore, “Is a Probe of City Graft a Tool of City Hall?” St. Petersburg Times , April 9, 1998.

Page 140 arranged a good post for him:Gevorkyan et al.

Page 141 all but running to the plane:Ibid.; Boris Vishnevsky, K demokratii i obratno . http://www.yabloko.ru/Publ/Book/Freedom/freedom_054.html. Accessed April 10, 2011.

Page 141 taken verbatim from an American textbook:Julie Corwin, “Russia: U.S. Academics Charge Putin with Plagiarizing Thesis,” RFERL website, March 27, 2006. http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1067113.html. Accessed April 10, 2011.

Page 142 the former mayor was aiming:Peter Reddaway, “Some Notes on the Possible Murder of Sobchak, the Political Career and Persecution of Marina Sal’ye, and Some Related Cases,” unpublished paper.

Page 142 “the new Stalin”:Reddaway.

Page 143 The request was urgent:Author interview with Natalia Rozhdestvenskaya, March 2000.

Page 144 he advanced the theory:Arkady Vaksberg, Le Laboratoire des Poisons: De Lénine à Poutine (Paris: Buchet Chastel, 2007).

Page 144 Vaksberg’s car was blown up:Reddaway.

Page 150 its voter rolls swelled:OSCE Mission report on the March 26, 2000, election, Russian translation. http://hro-uz.narod.ru/vibori.html. Accessed May 17, 2011.

Page 151 over 52 percent of the vote:2000 election statistics. http://www.electoralgeography.com/ru/countries/r/russia/2000-president-elections-russia.html. Accessed March 17, 2011.

Page 151 Kremlin’s historic Great Palace:Andrei Kolesnikov, Ya Putina videl! (Moscow: Eksmo, 2005), p. 13.

Page 151 suffered a trauma at birth:Movement specialist Brenda Connors quoted in Paul Starobin, “The Accidental Autocrat,” Atlantic , March 2005. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-accidental-autocrat/3725/. Accessed May 9, 2011.

Page 151 Watch for the Left-handed:Shamil Idiatullin and Olga Tatarchenko, “Pora perevodit’ chasy na pravuyu ruku,” Kommersant , May 18, 2000. http://www.kommersant.ru/Doc/148145. Accessed May 19, 2011.

Page 152 white-gold Patek Philippe:“Kakiye chasy nosyat prezidenty i oligarkhi,” unsigned story on newsru.com, posted Feb. 17, 2005. http://www.newsru.com/russia/17feb2005/watch.html. Accessed May 19, 2011.

Page 152 “an old man of short stature”:Kolesnikov, p. 16.

Page 152 “I would like to report”:Vitaly Yaroshevsky, “Operatsiya ‘Vnedreniye’zavershena,” interview with Olga Kryshtanovskaya, Novaya Gazeta , Aug. 30, 2004. http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2004/63/43.html. Accessed May 19, 2011.

Page 153 ”He called me in”:Author interview with Mikhail Kasyanov, Moscow, May 18, 2011.

Page 154 defense spending would be increased:Masha Gessen, “Lockstep to Putin’s New Military Order,” New York Times , Feb. 29, 2000, p. 21.

Page 155 claimed no knowledge:Sergei Parkhomenko, “Besedy na yasnom glazu,” Itogi , May 11, 2000. http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/20/111020.html. Accessed May 21, 2011.