Ben Judah - Fragile Empire - How Russia Fell in and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin
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- Название:Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin
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is the fruit of Judah’s thorough research: a probing assessment of Putin’s rise to power and what it has meant for Russia and her people.
Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliché of stability, Putin’s regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story. Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions, and this contradiction leads to instability. The author explores both Putin’s successes and his failed promises, taking into account the impact of a new middle class and a new generation, the Internet, social activism, and globalization on the president’s impending leadership crisis. Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original and up-to-the-minute answers.
Judah’s dynamic account of the rise (and fall-in-progress) of Russian President Vladimir Putin convincingly addresses just why and how Putin became so popular, and traces the decisions and realizations that seem to be leading to his undoing. The former Reuters Moscow reporter maps Putin’s career and impact on modern Russia through wide-ranging research and has an eye for illuminating and devastating quotes, as when a reporter in dialogue with Putin says, “I lost the feeling that I lived in a free country. I have not started to feel fear.” To which Putin responds, “Did you not think that this was what I was aiming for: that one feeling disappeared, but the other did not appear?” His style, however, feels hurried, an effect of which is occasional losses of narrative clarity. In some cases limited information is available, and his pace-maintaining reliance on euphemistic, metaphorical, and journalistic language can leave readers underserved and confused. Judah is at his best when being very specific, and perhaps the book’s achievement is that it makes comprehensible how Putin got to where he is; those wondering how Putin became and remained so popular will benefit from this sober, well-researched case. (June)
A journalist’s lively, inside account of Russian President Putin’s leadership, his achievements and failures, and the crisis he faces amidst rising corruption, government dysfunction, and growing citizen unrest. From Book Description
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28. Mikhail Kasyanov, Bezputina: Politichiskie Dialog S Evgeny Kiselyevim (Moscow, 2009), p. 173.
29. Richard Sakwa, Russian Politics and Society , 4th edn (New York, 2008), p. 260.
30. Gleb Pavlovsky, Genialnaya Vlast (Moscow, 2012), p. 19.
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33. Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (New York, 2010), p. 5.
34. Yevgeniya Albats, The State within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia’s Past, Present and Future (New York, 1994), p. 23.
35. Brian D. Taylor, State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism (New York, 2011), p. 48.
36. Ibid., p. 38.
37. Soldatov and Borogan, The New Nobility , p. 70.
38. Available at http://cpj.org/killed/europe/russia/.
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43. Roberts, Putin’s United Russia Party , p. 87.
44. Ibid., p. 160.
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46. ‘Vtoraya Partiya Vlasti Poyavilis S Podachi Surkova’, Lenta , 16 August 2006.
47. Arkady Ostrovsky, ‘Bribery in Russia up Tenfold in Four Years’, Financial Times , 22 June 2010.
48. Ibid.
49. One of the reasons for the sharpness of this drop was the expansion of the number of countries included in the Corruptions Perception Index. However, Elena Panfilova, the head of Transparency International in Russia, insists even if no countries had been added Russia would still have deteriorated on the index. Available at http://archive.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2001.
50. Available at http://archive.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2006.
51. Vladimir Radchenko, ‘Samii Negumanii Sud – Dlya Predprinmateli’, Forbes , 11 April 2011.
52. Allen Lynch, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (Washington DC, 2011), p. 89.
53. Anna Nemtsova, ‘Zakhar Prilepin: a modern Leo Tolstoy’, Russia beyond the Headlines , 13 April 2012.
54. Zakhar Prilepine, San’kia (Paris, 2009), p. 90.
55. Ibid., p. 92.
56. Yevgenia Albats, ‘“Une Generation Insaisissable”, Russie: Un Autoportrait’, Courrier Internationale , September 2011.
57. ‘Russia’s Regions: Facts And Figures’, United Nations Development Programme , available at http://www.undp.ru/index.phtml?iso=RU&lid=1&pid=1&cmd=text&id=187.
58. The girl in question was 17 years old at the time. Evidence comes from screenshots of an online conversation in which he appears to acknowledge intercourse. Available at http://dobrokhotov.users.photofile.ru/photo/dobrokhotov/115822366/139283934.jpg.
59. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XBX0Wkmpw.
60. Elizabeta Maetnaya, ‘Sudba Barabanshitsi’, Izvestia , 20 December 2011.
61. Pavlovsky, Genialnaya Vlast, p. 90.
62. ‘Putin Attacks Jackal Opponents’, BBC News , 21 November 2007.
63. ‘Putin deplores collapse of USSR’, BBC News , 25 April 2005.
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66. Steven Lee Myers, ‘Hazing Trial Bares Dark Side of Russian Military’, The New York Times , 13 August 2006.
67. Ibid.
68. Daniel Treisman, The Return Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (New York, 2011), p. 121.
Chapter Five: Putin’s Court
1. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEsO6HorDro.
2. Sergey Kolesnikov provided full documentation for his claims to the Financial Times , which verified them for the following article: Catherine Belton, ‘A Realm Fit for a Tsar’, Financial Times , 30 November 2011.
3. ‘Gunvor: Riddles, Mysteries and Enigmas’, The Economist , 5 May 2012.
4. Gennady Timchenko, ‘Gunvor, Putin and Me – The Truth about Russian Oil Trader’, Financial Times , 22 May 2008.
5. Andrew E. Kramer and David M. Herszenhorn, ‘Midas Touch in St Petersburg: Friends of Putin Glow Brightly’, The New York Times , 1 March 2012.
6. ‘Gunvor’s Roots’, The Economist , 5 May 2012.
7. ‘In Search of Putin’s Money’, Al Jazeera , 20 April 2012.
8. Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Olga Shorina (eds), Putin Itogi (Moscow, 2011). Available at http://www.putin-itogi.ru/putin-i-korruptsiya/.
9. Forbes 2000 and 2008 billionaires list, available at http://stats.areppim.com/listes/list_billionairesx00xwor.htm and http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martinyuk, Zhizn Rab Na Galerakh (Moscow, 2012). Available at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/2012/120827_Russia_Pamphlet.pd.
16. Ibid.
17. Caleb Melby, ‘Moscow Beats New York, London, in List of Billionaire Cities’, Forbes , 16 March 2012.
18. Tony Wood, ‘Collapse as Crucible: The Reforging of Russian Society’, New Left Review , vol. 74, March–April 2012.
19. Ibid.
20. Vladimir Putin, First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President (London, 2000), p. 182.
21. Dmitry Zhdannikov, ‘Russia Davos Party Has Unusual Opposition Flavor’, Reuters , 28 January 2012.
22. Available at http://files.vpro.nl/wikileaks/cable/2009/03/09MOSCOW532.html.
23. ‘Dokhodi Semi Pervovo Vitze-Premera RF Igor Shuvalov’, RIA Novosti , 28 March 2012. Available at http://ria.ru/society/20120412/624180449.html.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Catherine Belton, ‘Shuvalov Case Raises Croneyism Questions’, Financial Times , 27 March 2012.
28. These allegations were made by Alexey Navalny who posted documents backing up his claims online, which were confirmed as real by a Moscow law firm. Available at http://navalny.livejournal.com/697198.html#cutid1; Andrew Kramer, ‘Activist Presses For Inquiry Into Senior Putin Official’, The New York Times , 30 March 2012.
29. Alexey Kudrin, ‘Otveti na Voprosi’. Available at http://akudrin.ru/news/otvety-na-voprosy.html#.T4Szz3lJri8.twitter.
30. ‘Letters’, The Economist , 2 September 2010.
31. Viktor Cherkesov, ‘Nelziya Dopustit, Stobi Voini Prevratilis V Torgovets’, Kommersant , 9 October 2007.
32. Vladimir L. Inozemtsev, ‘Neo-Feudalism Explained’, The American Interest , March-April 2011.
33. ‘Wife Serenades Russia’s NATO Envoy about “Making Love”’ (video), Agence France Presse , 6 November 2010.
34. Simon Shuster, ‘Vladimir Putin: When Family Is Virtually A State Secret’, Time , 16 June 2011.
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