Ben Judah - Fragile Empire - How Russia Fell in and Out of Love With Vladimir Putin

Black Sea (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Blair, Tony

fate compared to Putin’s (i)

importance of spin (i)

Kursk and Diana (i)

Putin’s greater popularity (i)

visits with Jonathan Powell (i)

blogging (i)

Bolaño, Roberto (i)

Bolotnaya protests (i), (ii), (iii);

see also protests

Bolsheviks (i), (ii), (iii)

Bolshoi Gorod (i), (ii), (iii)

bombings

apartments (i), (ii), (iii)

Dubrovka theatre (i)

Putin’s reaction (i)

Borges, Jorge Luis (i)

Borodino, Battle of (i)

Botox (i), (ii)

Brazil

economic comparisons (i), (ii), (iii)

emerging economies (i), (ii)

leaders’ power (i)

Breguet watches (i)

Brenton, Tony (i)

Brezhnev, Leonid

cartoon with Putin (i)

Chisinau (i)

‘Generation Elusive’ (i)

gerontocracy (i)

New Year address 1979 (i)

Putin and (i), (ii)

Rublevka (i)

stagnation (i), (ii)

Yeltsin and (i)

Brezhnevization (i), (ii)

BRIC (Brazil Russia India China)

Goldman Sachs pamphlet (i), (ii)

Russia identifies with (i), (ii)

Russia seen as (i)

Russia’s online penetration (i)

Bright Night nightclub (i)

‘Bright Russia’ (i)

Britain

London’s dominance (i)

Putin vilifies (i)

Russian economy and (i), (ii), (iii)

Brodsky, Joseph (i)

Brookings Institution (i)

Brother (i)

Browder, Bill (i), (ii)

Bryansk (i)

Bucharest Summit (i)

Buchenwald (i)

Buddhism (i), (ii)

Bukharin, Nikolai (i)

Bulgakov, Mikhail (i)

bureaucracy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Burkina Faso (i)

Burmatov, Vladimir (i), (ii)

Buryatia (i)

Bush, Barbara (i)

Bush, George W.

European Union and Russia (i)

fate compared to Putin’s (i), (ii)

gift for Russian propaganda (i)

Putin’s greater popularity (i)

Butyrka jail (i)

Buynaksk (i)

Bychkov, Egor (i), (ii)

Bykov, Dmitry (i)

Café Montmartre (Vladivostok) (i)

Camdessus, Michel (i)

Cameron, David (i)

Canada (i)

Cancun (i)

cannabis (i), (ii)

‘Capitalism in Crisis’ ( Financial Times ) (i)

Caspian Sea (i), (ii)

castling (i)

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (i), (ii)

Cathedral of the Dormition (i)

Catherine the Great (i)

Caucasus

Beslan (i)

Brother (i)

campaign for order (i)

conscripts (i)

escalating situation (i)

executions (i)

financing rumours (i)

hatred of (i), (ii)

intermarriage (i)

leather jackets worn by men from (i)

looms large (i)

migrants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

opposition attitude to (i)

Putin and Navalny (i)

Putin’s first six months (i)

Putin’s mission (i)

Rapota (i), (ii)

regional development programme (i)

San’kia (i)

Slav shot by men from (i)

terrorists (i)

voting patterns (i)

CCTV (i)

celebrities (i)

Central African Republic (i)

Central America (i), (ii), (iii)

Central Asia

demands for US withdrawal (i)

deportations to (i)

drugs (i), (ii)

Koreans deported to (i)

migrants (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

1991 referendum (i)

Russia and (i)

slaves (i)

Central Bank (i), (ii)

Central Election Commission (i), (ii)

Centre for Contemporary Development (i); see also INSOR

Centre for Strategic Development (i)

Centre for Strategic Research (i), (ii)

Chaadaev, Pyotr (i)

Chapman, Anna (i)

Che Guevara (i), (ii)

Chechens

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Brother (i)

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endless rebellions (i)

First Chechen War (i), (ii), (iii)

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hoodlums in Moscow (i)

Khodorkovsky (i)

OMON squads (i)

passport swapping (i)

Putin flown to (i)

Putin inherits (i)

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reinvaded (i), (ii)

San’kia (i)

Second Chechen War (i), (ii), (iii)

subsidies (i)

Surkov from (i), (ii)

terrorists (i)

TV chat shows (i)

Vladimir Tor (i)

war correspondents (i)

Yandikh clashes (i)

Yavlinsky (i), (ii)

Yeltsin’s botched war (i)

Cheka (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chekhov, Anton (i)

Cheney, Dick (i)

Cherkesov, Viktor (i)

Chernenko, Konstantin (i), (ii)

Chernomyrdin, Viktor (i)

Chevron (i)

Chicago (i), (ii)

‘Children are the Victims of Adult Vices’ statues (i); see also Bolotnaya protests

Chile (i), (ii)

China (i)

Academy of Social Sciences (i), (ii)

attitudes to Russia (i)

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Birobidzhan (i)

BRIC (i)

Chechen fighters’ passports (i)

Christianity and (i)

Communist Party (i), (ii), (iii)

comparisons (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

consumerism (i)

Cultural Revolution (i)

Deng Xiaoping (i)

dependence on (i)

ethnic Chinese in Russia (i)

fears of (i)

foreign investment (i)

interest in political system (i)

Internet (i), (ii)

Irkutsk (i)

modelling on (i)

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pipeline (i), (ii)

protests (i), (ii)

resisting the rise of (i), (ii)

role model (i)

Russia overshadowed by (i), (ii)

statistics (i)

Taiwan’s Russian claims (i)

Vladivostok and (i), (ii)

Chirikova, Evgenia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chisinau (i)

Chita (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Christian Democrats (Italy) (i)

Christianity (i)

Chubais, Anatoly (i), (ii)

Chukotka (i), (ii)

CIA (i), (ii)

‘Citizens Initiative’ (i)

‘City Without Drugs’ (i), (ii), (iii)

Clean Ponds (i)

Cleland, David (i)

Clinton, Hillary (i)

CNN (i)

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel (i)

Cold War

another feared (i)

anti-Brenton campaign (i)

atomic scares (i)

China and Russia (i)

comparison, a (i)

forest fires (i)

Putin’s KGB men limited role in (i)

Robert Gates (i)

Rublevka (i)

Sechin’s men (i)

Short Cold War (i), (ii), (iii)

Coming Russian Boom, The (Richard Layard and John Parker) (i)

Committee to Protect Journalists (i)

Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)

Khodorkovsky financing (i)

Medvedev an exception (i)

monstrous centaur (i)

Putin’s popularity rating and (i)

United Russia and (i)

voting patterns (i)

withering away (i)

Yeltsin’s election prospects and (i), (ii)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

elite contained within (i)

Gorbachev becomes general secretary (i)

KGB and (i)

Medvedev first non-member leader since Nicholas II (i)

modelling on China (i)

treasurers falling from windows (i)

Zyuganov (i)

computers (i); see also Internet

Congress of People’s Deputies (i), (ii), (iii)

conscription (i)

Consider Danger in Times of Peace (i)

Constitution of the Russian Federation (i)

constitutional crisis (1993) (i), (ii), (iii)

contract killing (i), (ii)

corruption

anger at (i)

bribery budgets (i)

election rigging (i)

Kasyanov (i)

Khodorkovsky’s slide show (i)

Medvedev’s approach to (i)

Navalny (i), (ii), (iii)

‘normal’ corruption (i)

St Petersburg food scandal (i)

Surkov (i)

systemic (i)

types of (i)

within Putin’s ‘court’ (i)

Corruptions Perceptions Index (i), (ii)