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

budget balancing price (i)

dependence on oil prices (i)

efficiency gains (i)

GDP and (i)

Khodorkovsky’s plans (i)

prices collapse (i), (ii), (iii)

pushing towards $20 a barrel (i)

statistics (i)

taxation on (i), (ii)

see also Khodorkovsky, Mikhail; Yukos

Oil, Gas and Construction Workers Union (i)

‘old believers’ (i), (ii)

oligarchs

bribing the Duma (i)

consensus imposed (i)

Davos pact (i)

effect of Khodorkovsky’s arrest (i), (ii)

finding a successor to Yeltsin (i)

IMF and (i)

increase in numbers (i)

liberalism and (i)

new wave of Putin era (i)

public opinion of (i)

Putin’s friends become (i)

Putin’s warning to (i)

state seizes assets (i), (ii)

television (i)

Yeltsin’s pact with (i)

see also Berezovsky, Boris; Khodorkovsky, Mikhail

OMON

brutality (i)

Navalny (i)

newborn protest movement and (i)

outnumbering (i)

packing the streets (i)

Prilepin member of (i), (ii)

provincial brigades (i)

Russian Far East (i), (ii)

Strategy-31 and (i)

Omsk (i), (ii), (iii)

Open Russia foundation (i), (ii)

‘Operation Successor’ (i), (ii), (iii)

Oprichniks (i); see also Day of the Oprichnik

Orange Revolution

enemy within (i)

Pavlovsky and (i)

propaganda to counter (i)

protesters in Kiev (i)

Western powers and (i)

youth organisations after (i), (ii)

see also anti-Orange protests

organised crime (i), (ii)

‘Orgkomitet’ (i), (ii)

ORT (i), (ii), (iii)

Orthodox Church; see Russian Orthodox Church

Ostankino TV Tower (i)

Other Russia (i), (ii)

Ottomans (i); see also Turkey

Oxford University (i)

Ozero dacha cooperative (i), (ii), (iii)

Pacific Ocean (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Pakistan

Corruption Perceptions Index (i)

life expectancy (i), (ii)

terrorism (i), (ii)

Panfilova, Elena (i)

Papua New Guinea (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Parfyonov, Leonid

Bolotnaya (i)

choice to be made (i)

opinion of Navalny (i)

role (i)

television as propaganda (i), (ii)

television awards speech (i)

Paris (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Parkhomenko, Sergey (i)

Party of Beer Lovers (i)

Pasternak, Boris (i)

Patriarchs (i)

Patriarch’s Ponds (i)

Patrice Lumumba University (i)

Patrushev, Nikolai (i), (ii), (iii)

Pavlov, Valentin (i)

Pavlovsky, Gleb (i)

birthday of ‘national leader’ (i)

bureaucracy creep (i)

change and concern (i)

creates Putin image (i), (ii)

fired (i)

George Bush (i)

protests comment (i)

quoted (i), (ii), (iii)

Surkov and (i)

system weaknesses (i)

Ukraine (i), (ii)

youth groups (i)

Pearl River Delta (i)

Pelevin, Victor (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

pensions (i), (ii)

People’s Daily (i)

People’s Liberation Army (i)

Pepsi (i)

perestroika (i), (ii)

Perm (i)

Peru (i)

Peter the Great (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Peterhof (i)

Petromed (i)

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatca (i)

Picasso, Pablo (i)

Pikalyovo (i)

Pinochet, Augusto (i), (ii), (iii)

pipelines (i), (ii); see also oil

Playboy (i)

Poklonnaya Hill (i)

Poland (i), (ii), (iii)

Polikanov, Dmitry (i)

Politburo (i), (ii)

‘political technologists’ (i), (ii), (iii)

Politkovskaya, Anna (i), (ii)

Ponomarev, Lev (i), (ii), (iii)

Possessed, The (Fyodor Dostoevsky) (i)

Potanin, Mikhail (i)

poverty

democracy perceived synonymous with (i)

Khodorkovsky and the masses (i)

lower middle class (i)

percentage of population in (i), (ii)

Powell, Jonathan (i)

Prague (i), (ii)

Pretty Woman (i)

Prilepin, Zakhar (i), (ii), (iii)

Primakov, Yevgeny (i), (ii)

Primorsky Partisans (i)

Primorye (i)

privatization (i), (ii)

‘Project South’ (i), (ii)

Prokhorov, Mikhail (i), (ii)

Prospect Sakharova (i), (ii)

protests

2011 (i)

anti-Orange (i)

Bolotnaya (i)

Bychkov (i)

China (i)

Clean Ponds (i)

Federal Law 122 (i)

Kaliningrad (i), (ii)

lacking structure (i)

Navalny’s response (i)

OMON in St Petersburg (i)

Orange (i)

Prospect Sakharova (i)

Strategy-31 (i)

‘train army’ (i)

Vladivostok (i)

Pskov (i)

Pushkin, Alexander (i)

Pussy Riot (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Putin, Lyudmila (i), (ii)

Putin, Vladimir

1991, his character (i)

apocalyptic rhetoric (i)

approaches KGB (i), (ii)

authoritarianism (i), (ii)

Berezovsky adopts (i)

Berezovsky destroyed (i)

Beslan (i)

BRIC branding (i)

Chechen leader and (i), (ii)

childhood character (i)

China (i)

corruption sets in (i)

destroying the Duma (i)

dismantling of institutions (i)

early achievements in power (i)

economic policy (i)

faction management (i)

family (i), (ii), (iii)

federalism dismantled (i)

foreign perceptions (i)

forest fires (i)

FSB (i), (ii), (iii)

GDP growth under (i)

industrial Russia’s attitude to (i)

interests (i)

Internet, attitude to (i), (ii)

interviewed (i)

journalists murdered (i)

Kasyanov (i)

KGB’s opinion of (i)

Khodorkovsky and the control of oil (i)

life in Dresden (i), (ii)

links broken by (i)

loyalty to friends (i)

Medvedev anointed (i)

Medvedev’s role vis-à-vis (i), (ii), (iii)

militarization (i)

mindset (i)

Moscow under (i)

Navalny, a comparison (i)

Nemtsov’s reports (i)

NGOs (i)

Nicholas II and (i)

‘Operation Successor’ (i), (ii)

orders ignored (i)

organised crime (i)

parents (i)

personality cult (i)

popularity (i), (ii), (iii)

power base introduced (i)

power personalised (i)

Pussy Riot comment (i)

Pyotr Stolypin, admiration of (i)

reading habits (i)

return to supreme power 2012 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

rotation system (i)

ruling till 2024? (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Russia, his view of (i)

school (i), (ii)

second Chechen war (i), (ii)

Sobchak’s influence (i), (ii)

social links broken by (i)

solitariness (i)

Solzhenitsyn and (i)

spending spree (i)

St Petersburg (i), (ii)

stake in oil and gas (i)

Surkov’s role (i)

survival, the man and the country (i)

sweeps into power (i)

television, the struggle to control (i), (ii), (iii)

tsar, as (i), (ii), (iii)

Tudor comparison (i), (ii)

Ukraine (i)

Vera Gurevich (teacher) remembers (i)

‘Walking Together’ (i)

watches (i)

wealth of ruling caste (i)

West, attitude to (i)

work ethic (i)

world view (i), (ii)

Yeltsin, the importance of not being (i)

Yeltsin’s legacy (i)

Putin consensus (i)

class and culture wars replace (i), (ii)

comes to an end (i)

prosperity strengthens (i)

sustained protests build (i)

Putin majority (i), (ii)

Qing dynasty (i)

Radchenko, Vladimir (i)

Rakhimov, Murtaza (i)

Rapota, Grigory (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Rasputin (Putin’s grandfather serves) (i)

Reagan, Ronald (i)

Red Square (i), (ii), (iii)

regions (i); see also under Moscow

Resin, Vladimir (i)

Rio Grande (i)

Ritsa, Lake (i)

Rogov, Kirill (i)