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A

‘agents of influence’ 51, 53, 60–1

Albright, Madeleine 92–3, 167

Alekseeva, Liudmila 123–4, 126

American Council for International Relations 67

Anatomy of Protest 152

Andropov, Iurii 60–1

Antimaidan 175, 182

August 1991 coup 1, 50–1, 63, 68, 76–7, 94

B

Belovezha accords 28–9, 44, 66–8

Berezovskii, Boris 30, 105, 140, 149

Biden, Joe 166–8

Bilderberg club 67

‘Black Hundreds’ 19

Bolotnaia Square 149, 151–2, 156, 158

Book of the Kahal 18

Burbulis, Gennadii 64

Byzantine Empire 96–9

C

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 100–2

Clinton, Bill 63, 69

Clinton, Hillary 154

colour revolution 80, 82, 86, 110, 113, 117, 129–30, 136–7, 144–5, 148, 154–5, 175, 180–1, 183, 186, 190, 192

Council for National Strategy 114

Crimea 32, 75, 124, 162–4, 169–71, 174, 176, 178, 186–7, 189, 193

Crimean War 5, 15

D

Danilevskii, Nikolai 16

Dostoevsky, Fedor 16

Dugin, Aleksandr 32–6

The Iuzhinskii circle 32

The Foundations of Geopolitics 33, 36–7

Conspirology 33

Alain de Benoist 35

Moscow State University 177

The Great Game 36

electoral campaigns 135–6

the war in Georgia 37

Dulles Plan 61–3

E

‘enemy of the people’ 19

F

fake structures 139–41

Fedorov, Evgenii 128

Femen 104

Freemasons 14

Froianov, Igor’ 24, 53

G

Gefter, Mikhail 27–8, 31

Glaz’ev, Sergei 91, 115, 178, 184

Golos 147–8

Gorbachev, Mikhail 24, 28, 51, 53, 56–60, 64–5, 67, 81, 87, 133, 152, 155,

and forgeries 60, 62

gosdep 154

Grigor’ev, Maksim 139–41

I

Iakovlev, Aleksandr 53

Iliukhin, Viktor 59, 67–9

impeachment to Yeltsin 66–72

Information warfare 106

K

Kara-Murza, Sergei 55–6

Kas’ianov, Mikhail 140, 173

Kasparov, Garry 173

Katkov, Mikhail 17

Kholmanskikh, Igor’ 150–151

Kiselev, Dmitrii 99, 165–6, 168, 171–3, 176, 182

Krasheninnikova, Veronika 91, 125–7, 181

Kratkii kurs VKPb 21

Kriuchkov, Vladimir 53, 65

Kurginian, Sergei 53–4, 56, 152

L

Leont’ev, Mikhail 36, 151, 154–5, 157

Levada-tsentr 128

Limonov, Eduard 170, 172

M

Mamontov, Arkadii 101–103, 105–6, 120–2, 124, 128

Mal’tsev, Viacheslav 193

Markov, Sergei 101, 119

McFaul, Michael 133, 154–6

Medvedev, Dmitrii 37, 42, 117, 145–6, 151, 159, 167, 186

Moscow Helsinki Group 121, 123

N

Narochnitskaia, Natalia 37–41

Nashi 93–96

National-traitors 170

natural resources 57, 77, 83, 109, 115, 117, 119, 153, 158, 167–8, 190

Navalny, Aleksei 62, 149, 155, 171, 177,

Nevzorov, Aleksandr 94

New World Order 34–5, 39, 53, 67, 90, 109, 116, 176, 185, 187, 190

Novorossiia 176–7

Nuland, Victoria 166

O

‘occupational government’ 70

oligarchs 30, 54, 87, 95, 97, 114–16, 139, 141, 145, 177, 186

Open Russia 114, 140

Operation Golgotha 60

Orthodox Christianity 39, 67, 90, 97–8, 103

OSCE 141–2, 148

P

Panarin, Igor’ 52–3, 155

paranoid style 6, 25

Patriarch Kirill 100–1, 104, 107

Patrushev, Nikolai 118, 121, 167, 179

Pavlov, Valentin 65–6

Pavlovskii, Gleb 26–32, 48–9, 88, 94, 117, 135, 139–40, 189

Foundation of Effective Politics 27

Orange Revolution 80

Dugin, Aleksandr 36

perestroika 28, 32–3, 51–4, 60, 64–5, 87, 146, 155, 181

perestroika-2 152

Petrov, Vasilii 14

Peskov, Dmitrii 59, 146, 163

Poklonnaia Hill 156, 159

Popov, Gavriil 65

Popper, Karl 6

Powell, Jonathan 122–4

Protocols of the Elders of Zion 18

Provocateurs (film) 102

Pushkov, Aleksei 91

Pussy Riot 100–8, 110–11

Putin, Vladimir

In Putin’s support movement 13NGOs 118–20, 122, 179

Pavlovskii 27–30

rallies 113, 142

sanctions 171, 175–6

successor 27, 80, 82, 167

the Soviet collapse 50, 72–6, 135

popularity 29–30, 88, 135, 137, 159–60, 186

press-conference 92, 149

Putin’s plan 136

Putin’s enemies 119, 139–41, 143

political rallies 95, 110–12, 123, 138, 142–4, 149, 150, 152, 155–8, 175, 181

Prokhanov, Aleksandr 33, 66, 189

R

Ratnikov, Boris 92, 167

Rice, Condoleezza 116, 121,

Roberts, Paul Craig 106

Rogozin, Dmitrii 90–1, 115

Rockefellers 52, 114

ruling circles of the USA 90

Russia: The Full Eclipse 62

S

sanctions against Russia 165, 169, 171–4, 178

Second World War 21, 40, 69–70, 94–5, 127, 182–3

Sechin, Igor’ 114

Shevchenko, Maksim 42–7

the Caucasus 42–4

Israel 45–6

Shevkunov, Tikhon 97–8

Shironin, Viacheslav 52–3

Sidiakin, Aleksandr 125–7

siloviki 114, 117

Slavophiles 5, 15–16, 40, 87

Special correspondent 103

spy rock 120–3

St George ribbon 126–7

Starikov, Nikolai 56–8, 148–9, 175, 179

State and the Oligarchy 116

State Committee of the State of Emergency ( GKChP ) 64–6, 76, 94

Strelkov, Igor’ 176–8

Surkov, Vladislav 80–90, 98, 108, 109, 116, 159, 168, 177, 190

T

Trilateral Commission 35, 52–3, 67

tumultuous ’90s 138

U

Ukraine

2014 crisis 32, 36, 75, 111, 133, 159, 162–5, 172, 174–82, 186

2004 elections 27, 30–1, 80, 86, 93, 112, 117–18, 121, 127, 134, 148, 155

Soviet collapse 58

‘the puppet state’ 165–9

Union of Right Forces 144