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32. Boris N. Yeltsin, Midnight Diaries (New York: PublicAffairs, 2000), 153–56.

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35. Ferguson, Japanese-Russian Relations 1907–2007, 103.

36. Kimura, The Kurillian Knot, 117–18.

37. Leszek Buszynski, “Oil and Territory in Putin’s Relations with China and Japan,” Pacific Review 19, no. 3 (2006): 297.

38. Kimura, The Kurillian Knot, 122.

39. Natasha Kuhrt, Russian Policy toward China and Japan (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011), 145.

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49. A foreign ministry official complained to the author about US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland: “She lectured us on Russia. She doesn’t understand Asia and why it is so important to improve relations with Russia.”

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51. Samuel Osborne, “Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Says Donald Trump Encouraged Him to Improve Relations with Vladimir Putin,” Independent, February 14, 2017, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/japan-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-donald-trum-p-improve-russia-relations-valdimir-putin-us-president-a7579166.html.

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1. Senior Israeli official in conversation with the author, January 2018.

2. Owen Matthews, Jack Moore, and Damien Sharkov, “How Russia Became the Middle East’s New Power Broker,” Newsweek, February 9, 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/how-russia-became-middle-easts-new-power-broker-554227.

3. Andrew Roth, “On Visit to Syria, Putin Lauds Victory over ISIS and Announces Withdrawals,” Washington Post, December 11, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/putin-makes-first-visit-to-syria-lauds-victory-over-isis-and-announces-withdrawals/2017/12/11/f75389de-de61-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html?utm_term=.5ef20ab69336.