Masha Gessen - The Man Without a Face

Page 158 One thing was clear:Original reporting for Masha Gessen, “Leningradskoye delo,” Itogi , July 18, 2000. http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/29/112897.html. Accessed May 23, 2011.

Page 159 “There are no charges”:Author interview with Nina Lepchenko, July 3, 2000.

Page 160 stopped being a threat:Masha Gessen, “Leningradskoye delo,” Itogi , July 18, 2000.

Page 161 release him pending trial:“Glava ‘Russkogo video’ Dmitry Rozhdestvensky umer ot serdechnogo pristupa,” unsigned news story on lenta.ru. http://lenta.ru/russia/2002/06/06/rusvideo/. Accessed May 23, 2011.

Page 163 debts would be forgiven:Mikhail Kasyanov, Bez Putina (Moscow: Novaya Gazeta, 2009), pp. 70–73.

Page 163 but also by the press minister:Dmitry Pinsker, “Ulika nomer 6,” Itogi , Sept. 26, 2000. http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2000/39/114667.html. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 163 Gusinsky said publicly:“Gusinsky ne budet ispolnyat’ soglasheniya s Gazpromom, potomu shto oni podpisany pod ugrozoy lisheniya svobody. Ugrozhal yemu lichno Lesin,” unsigned news story on www.polit.ru. http://old.polit.ru/documents/320557.html. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 164 Putin refused to interfere:“Putin schitayet, shto konflikt mezhdu Gazpromom i Media-Mostom—spor khozyaystvuyushchikh subyektov, reshat, kotoryi dolzhen sud,” unsigned news item on www.polit.ru.www.polit.ru.http://old.polit.ru/documents/329155.html. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 164 reprimanding his press minister:“Kasyanov snova publichno otchital Lesina. Na tom delo i konchilos’,” unsigned news item on www.polit.ru.http://old.polit.ru/documents/334896.html. Accessed May 25, 2011.

Page 166 “Death is on board with us”:Boris Kuznetsov, “Ona utonula…”: Pravda o “Kurske,” kotoruyu skryl genprokuror Ustinov (Moscow: De-Fakto, 2005).

Page 167 confirm there were no survivors:“Gibel atomnoy podvodnoy lodki ‘Kursk.’ Khronologiya,” unsigned item on RIA Novosti. http://ria.ru/society/20050812/41140663.html. Accessed June 1, 2011.

Page 168 “I was screaming”:Author interview with Marina Litvinovich, July 1, 2008.

Page 169 “‘Do you believe that the guys’”:Kolesnikov, p. 35.

Page 170 “‘Cancel the mourning immediately!’”:Ibid., pp. 38–39.

Page 171 “You saw it on television?”: Programma Sergeya Dorenko ob APL Kursk , aired Sept. 2, 2000. http://sergeydorenko.spb.ru/news-1-24.htm. Accessed June 1, 2011.

Page 173 “It sank”: Larry King Live , “Russian President Vladimir Putin Discusses Domestic and Foreign Affairs,” aired Sept. 8, 2000. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0009/08/lkl.00.html. Accessed June 1, 2011.

Page 174 Testifying in a London court:Alexander Voloshin, London Commercial Court testimony, November 14, 2011.

Page 174 “I wrote about an American journalist”:Author interview with Boris Berezovsky, June 2008.

Page 174 “I’ve always told people”:Yelena Bonner, press conference, Moscow, Nov. 30, 2000.

Page 175 “What a shitty time”:Yuri Samodurov, press conference, Moscow, Nov. 30, 2000.

Page 177 “In December 2000, I went”:“A Year of Putin,” a roundtable discussion held in Moscow, Dec. 26, 2000. The speakers were Leonid Ionin, dean of applied political science at the Higher School of Economics; Duma deputy Vyacheslav Igrunov; political adviser Simor Kordonsky; philosopher Alexander Tsipko; and Carnegie Center scholar Andrei Ryabov.

Page 180 “I spent six years”:Yuli Rybakov, interviewed by Marina Koroleva on Echo Moskvy, Jan. 17, 2001. http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/13380.phtml. Accessed June 7, 2011.

Page 181 an undercover KGB agent:Leonid Drachevsky worked in Soviet embassies in Spain and Poland.

Page 181 KGB officers from Leningrad:Viktor Cherkesov and Georgy Poltavchenko.

Page 181 a police general:Petr Latyshev.

Page 181 army generals:Viktor Kazantsev and Konstantin Pulikovsky.

Page 182 “I assert that the most”:Boris Berezovsky, “Lichniye svobody—glavny zakon demokraticheskogo obchshestva. Otkrytoye pismo prezidentu Rossiyskoy federatsii Vladimiru Putinu,” Kommersant , May 31, 2000. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/149293/print. Accessed May 1, 2011.

Page 182 group voting became routine:OSCE Election Observation Mission Report 2004. http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/russia/33101. Accessed June 8, 2011.

Page 183 Darya Oreshkina:Full disclosure: A couple of years after defending her dissertation on the topic, Darya became my life partner.

Page 183 more of their power to decide:Darya Oreshkina, Kartograficheskiy metod v issledovanii elektoral’nogo povedeniya naseleniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii , Ph.D. dissertation defended at Moscow State University in 2006.

Page 184 “a powerful inoculation”:Ilya Kolmanovsky interview with Alexander Margolis, St. Petersburg, June 2008.

Page 184 depended on their vote:Golos press conference, Moscow, March 14, 2004.

Page 188 An exhaustive study conducted:Soyuz Zhurnalistov Rossii, “Predvaritel’niy otchyot o monitoringe osveshcheniya s SMI vyborov Prezidenta Rossiyskoy Federatsii 14 marta 2004 g.” http://www.ruj.ru/news_2004/news_040331_1.html. Accessed Dec. 3, 2011.

Page 190 “One cannot but weep”:“Putin obyavil o perestroike gosudarstva posle tragedii v Beslane,” unsigned news item on newsru.com, and the full text of Putin’s speech, Sept. 13, 2004. http://www.newsru.com/russia/13sep2004/putin.html. Accessed June 9, 2011.

NINE. RULE OF TERROR

Page 199 “Just three weeks ago he was”:“Terrible Effects of Poison on Russian Spy Shown in First Pictures,” unsigned story, Daily Mail , Nov. 21, 2006. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-417248/Terrible-effects-poison-Russian-spy-shown-pictures.html. Accessed June 22, 2011.

Page 199 A few hours later… he was dead:Author interview with Marina Litvinenko, London, April 24, 2011.

Page 203 found evidence:Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu (New York: Liberty Publishing, 2004).

Page 203 other evidence began to emerge:Alexander Goldfarb with Marina Litvinenko, Sasha, Volodya, Boris … 2nd ed. (New York and London: AGC/Grani, 2010), p. 236.

Page 205 “They were very happy”:L. Burban et al., “Nord-Ost. Neokonchennoye rassledovaniye. Sobytiya, fakty, vyvody,” Moscow, April 26, 2006, Appendix 6.5, “Opisaniye sobytiy poterpevshey Karpovoy T. I.” http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/nordost/pril6.htm. Accessed June 23, 2011.

Page 205 “Esteemed President”:Burban et al., Khronologiya terakta . http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/nordost/1-2.htm. Accessed June 23, 2011.