Masha Gessen: The Man Without a Face

Medved (The Bear), 29

Medvedev, Dmitry, 263–64, 265–66, 270

Meri, Lennart, 133

Merkel, Angela, 220

Mikhailov Gardens (Leningrad), 77–78

Mikhalkov, Sergei, 179

Military, and Putin, 153–54

Moscow, 16, 27, 69, 71, 102, 106, 107, 119, 123, 140, 181

apartment-block bombings, 23, 24–25, 37–38, 203

coup (1991) and, 110, 111, 113–14, 115

theater hostage incident, 204–8, 209, 210–11, 213, 217, 218

Mothers of Beslan, 192, 193

Murder. See Assassinations; Poisoning

Murder of Politkovskaya, 219–21, 224–25

Nagorno-Karabakh, 2–3, 81–82

Narusova, Ludmila, 135–36, 140, 141

National anthem

Russian, 179, 180

Soviet Union, 179–80

Navalny, Alexey, 266–67

Nevsky Prospekt (Leningrad), 103, 114, 115, 136

Nevzlin, Leonid, 235–36, 238–39, 242, 253

New Cemetery (Beslan), 191

Nikolayev, Nikolai, 40, 41

NKVD, 53, 54

North Ossetia, 189, 194, 195, 212, 214

Novaya Gazeta , 203, 211

NTV, 36, 40, 41, 156, 164, 185, 188

Oil, 236, 238, 241, 253–54

Oreshkina, Darya, 183

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), 227, 228

Otechestvo—Vsya Rossiya (Fatherland—All Russia), 15

Otkrytaya Rossiya (Open Russia), 237–38

Padva, Genrikh, 252

Parliament, 178, 179

elections (2003), 227–28, 243

Putin and, 180, 181, 182, 190, 228

See also Duma

“Patriotic Song, The,” 179

Patrushev, Nikolai, 39, 42

Pavlov, Valentin, 118, 119

People’s deputies, 84–85, 91, 126

People’s Front, 79–80, 86–87, 88

Perestroika, 73, 79

Petrograd, 71. See also Leningrad; St. Petersburg

Podoltseva, Ekaterina, 78, 82

Poisoning, 199, 212

Litvinenko, 221–26, 260

Police, secret, 197

Beslan school hostage incident and, 216, 217

Moscow theater hostage incident and, 209, 210–11

See also Federal Security Service

Police special forces, 103, 110, 206–7

media and, 155–56

Politburo, 73

Political analysts, on Putin’s Russia, 177–78

Politkovskaya, Anna, 210–11, 212–13, 214, 216

murder of, 219–21, 224–25, 226

Popov, Gavriil, 111

Primakov, Yevgeny, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 41

Privatization, 14, 135, 164, 236

Prokhorov, Mikhail, 132, 267, 268–70

Propaganda, 187–88, 213

Protests

Battle of the Angleterre, 76

in East Germany, 66, 67–69

Leningrad rationing and, 102–4

in Soviet Union, 76

See also “Informals”

Putin, Vladimir (father), 44–45, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55–56

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 128, 158

as acting president, 29, 30–31, 35, 151–52, 153–55, 160, 167, 172–74, 177–78, 179

ambition of, 60

assassinations and, 226, 264

authoritarianism of, 261–62, 265

Babitsky and, 32–34, 35, 36

Berezovsky and, 15–21, 27, 31, 32, 42, 43, 131, 140, 171, 173–74, 182, 200, 257, 261

Beslan school hostage incident and, 189–90, 191, 214, 216–17, 249

bills and, 181, 182, 190

biography of, 31–32, 33, 36, 43, 45–46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 57, 58, 59, 69, 93, 116, 117, 120, 131, 145, 169, 170

Chechnya and, 208, 220, 224, 231–33

communism and, 132–33

constitution and, 153, 154, 181

corruption of, 254, 256–57, 258, 259–60, 261, 266, 270

coup (1991) and, 112, 116–17, 118, 119

decrees of, 153–54, 181, 182

democracy and, 131, 132, 134, 181–82, 184, 187, 190–91

and destruction of public space, 262

at Dresden KGB outpost, 62–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70

early education of, 47–48, 49, 50, 54–55

early life, 44–50, 51–53, 54–56

economy and, 230, 231, 232, 233, 241, 253–54, 259

election changes by, 190

envoys of, 181–82

FSB and, 18, 39, 41, 42, 152–53, 160, 172, 200–201

gait of, 151

higher education of, 54–56

Illarionov and, 230–33

inauguration, 151–52, 181, 259

Kasyanov and, 153, 242, 249–51

KGB and, 17, 18, 28, 32, 36, 50–51, 52–53, 54, 55, 56–57, 59–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98–99, 117, 118, 133, 134, 136, 181, 260

at Kremlin, 141, 142, 151

Kursk disaster and, 167, 168, 169, 170–72, 173

in Leningrad city council, 95–99

as Leningrad deputy mayor, 107, 119, 120–23

Litvinenko poisoning and, 225–26, 260

marriage of, 59, 62–63

media and, 163–64

Medvedev and, 263, 264, 265, 266, 270

military and, 153–54

as Moscow deputy head of presidential property management, 140

Moscow theater hostage incident and, 208

mythology of, 46

parliament and, 179, 181, 182, 190, 228

political analysts on Russia of, 177–78

Politkovskaya murder and, 220–21, 225

popularity of, 27, 29

as president, 127, 129, 227

as presidential candidate, 19–22, 27, 28, 29, 30–31, 36, 41–42, 127, 142, 145, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 153, 270

as prime minister, 22, 26–27, 172, 263

reelection (2000) of, 263

reelection candidacy (2004) of, 183, 184–85, 186, 187–88, 263

relationships of, 58–59

Rozhdestvensky and, 159–61

Sobchak and, 95–99, 117, 123, 124, 125, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138, 140, 142–44, 184

Soviet Union and, 133–34, 182, 270

as St. Petersburg deputy mayor, 134

as St. Petersburg political aide, 15–16, 21–22

television and, 171–72, 173–74, 187–88, 228

terrorism and, 217–18

as thug and fighter, 48–49, 50–52, 145, 242, 265

U.S. journalism on, 229–30, 233, 248

vertical power strengthening of, 181–82

vulgarisms of, 264–65

wealth of, 254, 256–57, 258–59

Yeltsin and, 19–20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29, 30–31, 35

Putina, Ekaterina (daughter), 63, 69

Putina, Ludmila Alexandrovna (wife), 58–59, 63, 69, 70, 119–20, 140

Putina, Maria (daughter), 59, 63

Putina, Maria Ivanovna (mother), 44, 45, 47, 52, 55–56

Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe, 32, 34, 36

Red Army Faction (RAF), 65

Revenko, Yevgeniy, 185, 188

Revolutions, Russian, 53, 71, 178, 180

Rodina (Motherland), 227

Roginsky, Arseniy, 117

Roldugin, Sergei, 57–58, 70

Rosinvest, 256

Rosneft, 241, 253, 254

Rostov, 196, 212

Rozhdestvensky, Dmitry, 156–61

Rushailo, Vladimir, 39

Russia

authoritarianism of, 261–62

constitution, 153, 154, 181

corruption in, 248, 255–56, 258, 264, 266, 270

crime, 2, 155, 169, 246. See also Corruption

democracy and, 131, 132, 134, 181–89, 227–28

economic crisis (1998), 181, 236–37

economy of, 255

legislature, 125–26

national anthem, 179, 180

new flag (1991), 114–15, 178

new government (1990s), 114–15, 124, 125–26, 131–32, 138

political analysts on Putin’s, 177–78

privatization, 14, 135, 164, 236

regions of, 181

revolutions, 53, 71, 178, 180

state seal, 179

U.S. journalism on, 228–30, 233, 248

wealth and property redistribution, 124–25, 131

wealth disparity, 134–35

Russian Federation, 179, 181. See also Russia

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, 179

Russian Union of Journalists, 188

Russkoye Video, 156–61, 162

Rutskoy, Alexander, 112–13

Ryazan, 24, 36–40, 41, 202, 203

Rybakov, Yuli, 82, 103, 180, 203

Sakharov, Andrei, 3, 28, 73, 82–83, 84, 85–86, 88, 174

Salye, Marina, 80–81, 83, 86, 87, 101–2, 125, 127–28, 136, 209, 258

coup (1991) and, 109, 110, 112, 115

on Leningrad city council, 88, 89, 91, 104–5, 109, 110, 112, 118, 119, 121, 122–23, 124