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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- ISBN:978-0-300-18121-0
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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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3. Ibid.; Oleysa Geresamenko, ‘Budet Bedno, No Chisto I Krasivo, Kak V Belorussi’, Kommersant Vlast , 10 September 2012; Caleb Melby, ‘Moscow Beats New York, London, in List Of Billiobaire Cities’, Forbes , 16 March 2012, available at http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/03/16/moscow-beats-new-york-london-in-list-of-billionaire-cities/.
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23. Ibid.
24. ‘Russian Macro View: Consumption to Remain Strong for Now’, Citi Economics , 21 October 2011.
25. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
26. Christopher Granville and Irina Lebedeva, ‘The Consequences of Putin’s Big Spend’, Trusted Sources Emerging Markets and Consulting , 4 October 2011.
27. Ibid.
28. Ilya Arkhipov and Lyubov Pronina, ‘Russia Boosts Arms Spree to $613 billion, Seeks US Technology’, Bloomberg , 20 September 2010.
29. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
30. Granville and Lebedeva, ‘The Consequences of Putin’s Big Spend’.
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35. Ibid., p. 459.
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38. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
39. I use the term technically as the GRP is calculated based on the regions’ natural resources. Inhabitants are not living, for the most part, like Americans. Figures available at www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/vvp/vrp98-10.xls; Russian Regions: Facts And Figures, National Human Development Report Russian Federation 2008: Russia Facing Demographic Challenges , United Nations Development Program, (Moscow, 2009) available at http://www.undp.ru/documents/NHDR_2008_Eng.pdf.
40. Miriam Elder, ‘Doll ‘Protesters’ Present Small Problem for Russian Police’, The Guardian , 26 January 2012. Olesya Geresamenko, ‘Tak Colonia Bilo, Tak I Ostanetsya’, Kommersant Vlast , April 2012.
41. Simon Shuster, ‘Pskov, Russia: Moonshine, Population Crisis Threaten Region’, Time , 9 May 2011.
42. ‘Kaluga: Be Successful’, Kaluga Development Corporation (Kaluga, 2012).
43. Ibid.
44. Doing Business in Russia: Your Tax And Legal Lighthouse (Moscow, 2012), p. 8.
45. Dmitry Vinogradov, ‘Pochemu Yaroslavl Ne Golosuyet Za ‘Medvedei’ I Shto On Dumaet O Putine’, RIA Novosti , 13 February 2012.
46. Infographic with regional results, available at http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20120304/171705949.html.
47. Ellen Barry, ‘Official Puts Career at Risk with Diatribe on Kremlin’, The New York Times , 9 June 2009.
48. Daniel Treisman, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Putin to Medvedev (New York, 2011), p. 284.
49. Russian 2010 Census, available at http://www.perepis-2010.ru/.
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53. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVVN0j54YQ.
54. Available at http://navalny.livejournal.com/627082.html.
55. Available at http://echo.msk.ru/blog/milov/823340-echo/.
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