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

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revolution (i)

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Georgian War (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Gergiev, Valery (i)

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cars from (i), (ii)

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Russian railway tracks (i)

Second World War (i), (ii), (iii); see also Hitler, Adolf

special relationship sought (i)

Volga Germans (i)

Weimar (i)

see also East Germany

Ginsberg, Allen (i)

glasnost (i)

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real incomes soar (i)

tourism (i)

Godard, Jean-Luc (i)

Gogol (bar) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Gogol, Nikolai (i)

gold (i), (ii)

Golden Horn Bay (i)

Goldman Sachs (i), (ii)

Golos (i)

Gorbachev, Mikhail

anti-alcohol campaign (i)

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Berezovsky’s portrait of (i)

building a power base (i)

cats fight (i)

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dacha (i)

demilitarization (i)

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glasnost (i)

government postholders under (i)

KGB plot against (i)

paychecks and benefits (i)

political instincts (i)

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speech accent (i)

television portrayal of (i)

transformed by the Party (i)

Urals (i)

Gorchakov, Alexander (i)

Gorelov, Dmitry (i)

Gori (i)

Greece (i), (ii)

Green March (i)

Gref, German

appointed Minister (i)

influence on economic policy (i)

Khodorkovsky repercussions (i)

Land Privatization Bill (i)

plans bear fruit (i)

Grigorovskaya, Irina (i), (ii)

Gromov, General Alexander (i)

Grozny (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Gryzlov, Boris (i), (ii), (iii)

Gudkov, Gennady (i)

Guevara, Che (i)

Gulag Archipelago, The (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

gulags (i), (ii), (iii)

Gulf States (i)

Gumilev, Lev (i), (ii)

Gunvor (i)

Gurevich, Vera (i), (ii)

Guriev, Sergei (i), (ii)

Gusinsky, Vladimir

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exile (i), (ii), (iii)

Putin’s contempt for (i)

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West ignores (i)

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Hainan (i), (ii)

Haiti (i)

Hampstead Heath (i)

Han Chinese (i), (ii)

Harbin (i)

Harvard University (i), (ii)

Heilongjiang (i)

Heisenberg, Werner (i)

Hermitage Capital fund (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

heroin (i), (ii), (iii)

Higher School of Economics (i)

Hilton, Paris (i), (ii)

History of the New Russia (i)

Hitler, Adolf

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post war Berlin (i)

Urals (i)

Victory Day over (i)

Holocaust (i), (ii)

homeless people (i)

Hong Kong (i)

Hotel National, Moscow (i)

House of Commons (i)

‘How to Rebuild Russia’ (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) (i)

Hungary (i)

IKEA

home goods purchased (i), (ii)

middle classes (i)

new branches (i)

shopping malls (i)

Illiaronov, Andrei (i), (ii)

immigration (i); see also migrants

INDEM (i)

India (i), (ii), (iii)

inefficiency (i)

Ingushetia (i), (ii)

Innovations and Venture Capital subcommittee (Duma) (i)

Inozemtsev, Vladislav (i)

INSOR (i), (ii), (iii)

intelligentsia

Bychkov, a quandary for (i)

Church mocked by (i)

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dissidents and (i)

Khodorkovsky and (i)

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Medvedev encourages (i)

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Navalny and (i)

Putin and Medvedev, a choice (i)

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Russia cursed (i)

2011 Duma elections (i)

videocracy helps (i)

International Labour Organisation (i)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

cuts off Russian credit (i)

debts paid back to (i)

Kasyanov and the life support (i), (ii)

manipulation (i)

Internet (i)

advertising (i)

anti-government websites (i)

boom (i)

FSB want to censor (i)

Navalny (i), (ii)

Putin (i), (ii)

Russians online (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Siberia (i)

without Putin (i)

iPhones (i), (ii), (iii)

Iran (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Iraq (i), (ii), (iii)

Ireland (i)

Irkutsk

Chinese in (i), (ii)

immigrants (i)

Navalny wanted by students in (i)

officials (i)

Trans Siberian Railway to (i)

Iron Curtain (i), (ii)

Islam

demographics (i)

legal position (i)

nationalists’ attitude (i)

Navalny’s warning (i)

Russia’s phobia (i)

Islamists (i), (ii)

Israel

a comparison (i)

arrival at Ben Gurion Airport (i)

comparisons (i), (ii)

direct flights (i)

terrorism (i), (ii)

Istanbul (i), (ii)

Italy

Afghanistan (i)

Berlusconi (i)

Christian Democrats (i)

GDP (i), (ii)

special relationship (i)

Ivan the Terrible (i), (ii)

Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein) (i)

Ivanov, Sergey Jr (i)

Ivanov, Sergey Sr (i), (ii), (iii)

Ivanovo (i), (ii), (iii)

Izvestia (i), (ii)

Jamaica (i)

James Bond (i)

Jan-Jak café (i), (ii), (iii)

Japan

banquet in honour of visiting Prime Minister (i)

cars imported from (i), (ii), (iii)

Liberal Democratic Party (i)

Russo-Japanese War (i)

Trans Siberian Railway (i)

Vladivostok (i)

Jemal, Orkhan (i)

Jerusalem (i)

Jesus Christ (i), (ii)

Jews

Birobidzhan (i), (ii)

Brother (i)

emigration (i)

Israel (i), (ii)

Karl Marx (i)

Khodorkovsky (i)

media oligarchs (i)

nationalists and (i)

Putin’s childhood acquaintance (i)

Stalin’s farmland (i)

John Locke Club (i)

Johnson, Boris (i)

Jolie, Angelina (i)

journalists

Committee to Protect Journalists (i)

detentions (i)

investigative journalism (i)

Moscow (i), (ii)

murder of (i)

Judaism (i), (ii)

judo (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Just Russia (i), (ii)

Kabul (i)

Kadyrov, Akhmad (i)

Kadyrov, Ramzan

expenditure (i)

Navalny’s blog (i)

Putin and (i), (ii)

subsidies to (i)

threats from (i)

Kalachinsky, Andrei (i), (ii)

Kalashnikovs (i), (ii)

Kaliningrad

business investigation (i)