Page 265increase the presidential term to six years:“Medvedev vnyos v Gosdumu zakonoproekt o prodlenii prezidentskikh polnomochiy,” unsigned news item on www.lenta.ru, Nov. 11, 2008. http://lenta.ru/news/2008/11/11/medvedev/. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 266Every year, Russia slid lower:Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index. http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results. Accessed Nov. 15, 2011.
Page 26615 percent of the Russian prison population:Ludmila Alekseeva speaking at the Yegor Gaidar Prize ceremony, Moscow, Nov. 14, 2011.
Page 266five gold wristwatches:“Zolotiye chasy dlya upravleniya delami Voronozhskoy oblasti. Prodolzheniye,” Rospil blog, Oct. 6, 2011. http://rospil.info/news/p/983. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 266technical documentation on a planned railroad crossing:“Recheniye komissii FAS po zakazu s tsenoy kontrakta boleye chem 11.5 mlrd rubley,” Rospil blog, Oct. 11, 2011. http://rospil.info/news/p/999. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 266two beds and two bedside tables:“MVD zaplatit 25 millionov rubley za otdelanniye zolotom krovati,” unsigned news item on www.lenta.ru, Aug. 19, 2008. http://lenta.ru/news/2009/08/19/gold/. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 266“An actual politician”:Anna Kachurovskaya, “Alexei Navalny: Tol’ko, pozhaluysta, ne nado govorit’: ‘Navalny sravnil sebya s Obamoy,’” Snob , Nov. 2010.
Page 266aNew Yorkerprofile:Julia Ioffe, “Net Impact: One Man’s Cyber-Crusade Against Russian Corruption,” New Yorker , April 4, 2011. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 267an all-time speed record:“Proekt ‘Rospil’ sobral perviy million na ‘Yandex-den’gakh’,” unsigned news item on www.lenta.ru, Feb. 3, 2011. http://lenta.ru/news/2011/02/03/million/. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.
Page 270Medvedev would be his prime minister:“Putin vydvigayetsya na prezidentskiye vybory 2012 goda,” unsigned news item on www.gazeta.ru, Sept. 24, 2011. http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lastnews/2011/09/24/n_2022837.shtml. Accessed Nov. 12, 2011.
EPILOGUE: A WEEK IN DECEMBER
Page 274just over 23 percent of the vote:Aleksei Zakharov, “Rezultaty vyborov na tekh uchastkakh, gde ne byli zafiksirovany narusheniya,” www.slon.ru, Dec. 5, 2011. http://slon.ru/calendar/event/723777/. Accessed Dec. 11, 2011.
Page 275“‘Democracy is in action’”:David Herszenhorn, Ellen Barry, “Majority for Putin’s Party Narrows in Rebuke from Voters,” New York Times , Dec. 4, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/world/europe/russians-vote-governing-party-claims-early-victory.html?n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/Russia?ref=russia. Accessed Dec. 11, 2011.
Page 280Mikhail Gorbachev has called for a revote:“Mikhail Gorbachev—Novoy,” Novaya Gazeta , Dec. 7, 2011. http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/49918.html. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Page 280“The problem with the Soviet regime”:Masha Gessen, “When There’s No Going Back,” International Herald Tribune , Dec. 8, 2011. http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/when-theres-no-going-back/?scp=2&sq=masha%20gessen&st=cse. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Page 281“irritated urban communities”:Natalya Raybman, “Surkov: Nuzhno sozdat’ partiyu dlya razdrazhennykh gorozhan,” Vedomosti , Dec. 6, 2011. http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/1444694/surkov_nuzhno_sozdat_partiyu_dlya_razdrazhennyh_gorozhan. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Page 283“inciting enmity against a specific social group”:Olga Korol’, “Ex-press-sekretaryu prezidenta Tatarstana Murtazinu dali real’niy srok,” Komsomol’skaya Pravda , Nov. 26, 2009. http://www.kp.ru/online/news//577494/. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Page 285“Why does everything in this country”:Boris Akunin blog entry, “I Could Not Sit Still,” Dec. 9, 2011. http://borisakunin.livejournal.com/45529.html. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Page 289Protests were held today:Konstantin Benyumov, “Vstavay, strana ogromnaya! Mitingi protesta 10 dekabrya proshli v 99 gorodakh Rossii,” onair.ru. http://www.onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID_38499/. Accessed Dec. 13, 2011.
Page 289the government has no comment:“Dmitry Peskov ne kommentiruyet miting na Bolotnoy ploshchadi,” unsigned news item, www.gazeta.ru, Dec. 10, 2011. http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2011/12/10/n_2130194.shtml. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.
Abramovich, Roman, 255–56
Activism
Leningrad, 77–79, 82, 83, 86–88
pro-democracy, 83, 84, 87
See also People’s Front
Albright, Madeleine, 35
Alexandrov, Alexander, 179
All-Russia State Television, 185
Angleterre Hotel (Leningrad), 72–73, 75–76, 77
Apartment-block bombings (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218
Armenia, 3, 79, 81, 82, 84
Artemyev, Igor, 109
Assassinations, 219
FSB, 200, 201
Putin and, 226, 264
See also Murder; Poisoning
Aushev, Ruslan, 214, 215
Azerbaijan, 2, 79, 81, 102
Babitsky, Andrei, 32–36, 42, 161, 212
Baikalfinansgrup, 253, 254
Bakatin, Vadim, 93–94
Baku, 102
Baltic republics, 106, 133
Battle of the Angleterre, 76, 89
Belyaev, Alexander, 109
Berezovsky, Boris, 12, 26, 28–29, 41, 175, 188, 202, 209
Putin and, 15–21, 27, 31, 32, 42, 43, 131, 140, 171, 173–74, 182, 200–201, 257, 261
Berlin, 65, 67–68
Berzin, Yan, 53–54
Beslan school hostage incident, 189–90, 191–94, 212–17, 218, 221, 248–49
Bezrukov, Sergei, 97–98
Bills
lustration, 3, 4, 6
Putin and, 181, 182, 190
Bogdanov, Alexander, 135–36
Boldyrev, Yuri, 119, 121, 123–24, 136
Bolsheviks, 53, 178
Bombings
apartment-block (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218
Leningrad, Angleterre Hotel (1987), 72–73, 75–76, 77
Bonner, Yelena, 174–75
Borisenko, Viktor, 48, 57
Browder, William, 233–34, 235, 243–47, 248
Buhre, Paul, 81
Bush, George W., 229
Buynaksk, 23
Bystritsky, Andrei, 187–88
Censorship, 73, 82. See also Journalism; Media
Channel One (Russian Public Television), 17, 27, 172, 174
Chechens, 25, 41, 146–51, 212, 213, 217, 224–25
Chechnya, 5, 17, 23, 107, 145, 154–55, 209, 213, 214, 217, 221, 226
Putin and, 208, 220, 224, 231–33
wars, 25–26, 28, 32–35, 36, 146–48, 149–51, 155, 208, 210, 214, 218, 220, 229, 231–32
Cherkesov, Viktor, 160
Chochiev, Alan, 195
Chubais, Anatoly, 12, 20, 21, 22, 28, 31
CNN, 173
Committee for Constitutional Oversight, 98
Committee 2008, 186
Communism, 132–33. See also Soviet Union
Communist Party, 3, 4, 6, 20–21, 22, 60, 73, 77, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86–87, 88, 89, 92, 97, 104, 118, 124, 133, 227, 242–43
Companies, 239
corruption of, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248
Congress of People’s Deputies, 125–26
Constitution, Russian, 153, 154, 181
Corruption
of companies, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248
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