Vladimir Yakunin - The Treacherous Path - An Insider's Account of Modern Russia

crime, organised 1

Crimean War 1, 2

cultural differences 1, 2, 3, 4

Czechoslovakia 1

Deep Yar Waterfall 1, 2, 3, 4

Deripaska, Oleg 1

Deutsche Bank 1n, 2

Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) 1, 2

diplomacy 1

diplomats 1, 2, 3, 4

Directorate of the President, Chief Control 1, 2

DOC (Dialogue of Civilizations) 1, 2

Dragon’s Mouth (waterfall) 1, 2, 3

druzhina (neighbourhood watch) 1

Duma (Russian parliament) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Dvorkovich, Arkady 1

Dzerzhinsky, Felix 1

Dzerzhinsky Higher School (KGB) 1

earthquakes, threat of 1

economy 1, 2, 3

education ( vospitanie ) 1

Emergency Situations, Ministry of 1

energy sector 1

Enlai, Zhou 1

entrepreneurship 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

environmental issues 1, 2, 3, 4

Estonia 1n, 2, 3

Eurotunnel 1

exports 1, 2

Ezugbaia, Irakli 1

Fadeev, Gennady 1

FBI 1, 2, 3

Federal Security Service (FSB) 1, 2

Finance, Ministry of 1, 2, 3, 4

financial crisis (2008) 1, 2

Forte, Sir Rocco 1

Foundation of Andrew The First-Called, The 1

France 1

Franco, Francisco 1

Frank, Sergei 1, 2, 3

FSB (Federal Security Service) 1, 2

Fursenko, Andrey 1

Fursenko, Sergey 1

Gaidar, Yegor 1

Gazprom 1

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5

geography 1, 2, 3, 4

geopolitics 1

Georgia 1

germanium (semiconductor material) 1

Germany 1n, 2

glasnost 1

Global Ports Investments PLC 1

Golubeva, Elena 1

Gorbachev, Mikhail

presidency 1, 2, 3

and Yeltsin 1, 2

Gosplan 1

Great Patriotic War 1, 2, 3, 4

Gref, Herman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5

Guidi, Federica 1

Gujral, I. K. 1

gulags (labour camps) 1, 2

Gulf of Finland 1, 2

Gusinsky, Vladimir 1

Hackers, Association of 1

Hanseatic League 1

healthcare system 1, 2

Holy Fire, the 1, 2

Homo Sovieticus 1

Hotel, Astoria, St Petersburg 1, 2

Hotel Europa, St Petersburg 1

hotels, privatisation of 1

How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie) 1

Huntington, Professor Samuel 1

hyper-inflation 1

industry 1, 2

infant mortality, world 1

inflation, hyper- 1

International Centre for Business Cooperation 1, 2

International Olympic Committee 1, 2, 3

International Union of Railways 1

investment, foreign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute 1, 2

Islamism 1, 2, 3, 4n

Ivanovich, Vladimir 1

Izrailit, Valery 1, 2, 3

Japanese War 1

Jerusalem 1

JSC Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port 1, 2

JSC Ust-Luga 1, 2, 3

Juan Carlos I, king 1

Judaism 1

judicial system 1

Kadyrov, Akhmad 1

Kaliningrad 1n

Kang Kyung Ho 1, 2

Kapur, Jagdish 1

Karst topography 1

Kazan 1

KGB

and CPSU 1

destruction of files 1

First Directorate 1

freedom and 1

Putin and 1

training 1

use of persuasion 1

See also FSB (Federal Security Service)

Khatami, Mohammed 1

Khibiny 1

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 1

Khrushchev, Nikita 1

Kil Su, Jon 1, 2

Kinex 1

Kislyak, Sergey 1

Klaus, Václav 1

Komsomol 1, 2, 3

Korail 1

Koryushka (fish) 1

Korzhakov, Alexander 1

Kosak, Dmitry 1, 2

Kotka, Finland 1

Kovalchuk, Yuri 1

Kozak, Dmitry 1

Krasnaya Polyana 1

Kudrin, Alexei

finance minister 1, 2, 3, 4

loses seat 1

politician 1

and Yakunin 1n

Kuzbassrazrezugol 1

Kvetan, Vladimir 1

labour camps 1

labour camps (gulags) 1, 2

Ladozhsky railway station 1

language differences 1, 2, 3

Latvia 1n, 2

Law on Cooperatives (1988) 1, 2

lawlessness 1, 2

legal system 1, 2

Lenin, Vladimir 1, 2

Leninakan, Armenia 1

Leningrad 1, 2

Leontief, Wassily 1

Levitin, Igor 1, 2

life expectancy 1

Lithuania 1n, 2

living standards 1, 2, 3

living standards, American 1

Löscher, Peter 1

McDonald’s 1

McOmber, Richard 1

mafia 1

Makhmudov, Iskander 1

Manevich, Mikhail 1

Marshall Islands 1n

media, mass

control of 1

newspapers 1, 2, 3

TV 1, 2

Western 1, 2, 3, 4

Medvedev, Dmitry 1n

Mehdorn, Hartmut 1n, 2, 3

Merkel, Angela 1n

Ministry of Emergency Situations 1

Ministry of Finance 1, 2, 3, 4

Ministry of Railways 1, 2, 3

Ministry of Transport 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Minstry of Railways 1

morality 1, 2, 3

Moscow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Moscow Olympic Games (1980) 1

Moscow Patriarchate 1n

mountain ranges 1

Murdoch, Rupert 1

Natural Territories, Law On Specially Protected 1

Nazarbayev, Nursultan 1

Nemtsov, Boris 1

neo-liberalism 1

Nevsky Express incident (2009) 1, 2

New York 1

9/11 attack 1

NKVD see KGB

nomenklatura 1, 2

North Korea 1

North-West Inspectorate 1, 2, 3

Novocherkassk 1, 2

Novorossiysk 1, 2

Novoship 1

Novosibirsk 1

October Railway 1

OGPU see KGB

oil industry 1, 2, 3

oligarchs 1, 2

Olympic Committee 1, 2

Olympic Summer Games (1980) 1

Olympic Winter Games (Sochi 2014) 1, 2, 3, 4

Olympstroy 1, 2

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) 1, 2

Onexim Bank 1

Orthodox Christianity 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n

Ozero (dacha cooperative) 1

Papanicolaou, Nicholas 1

Paris 1

parliament (Duma) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

perestroika 1, 2, 3

Peter the Great 1, 2

Petrograd 1

Piterskie (‘the Petersburgers’) 1

political system 1, 2, 3

population 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

ports 1, 2, 3

Potanin, Vladimir 1

power stations 1

PPP (public–private partnership) 1, 2, 3

Primorsk 1, 2, 3, 4

Princeton Library 1

Privatisation

in 1990s 1, 2, 3

energy sector 1

hotel 1

of property 1

waterways 1

Prokhorov, Mikhail 1

propaganda 1, 2, 3, 4

See also media, mass

protection money 1

public–private partnership (PPP) 1, 2, 3

Pushkin, Alexander 1

Putin, Vladimir

May Decrees 1

Nevsky Express incident (2009) 1, 2

presidency 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Prime Minister 1

reforms 1

and Russian Railways 1, 2

and Sochi games 1

and Ust-Luga 1

and Yakunin 1, 2, 3, 4

rail lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

railway system 1

Railways, Ministry of 1, 2, 3

Reagan, Ronald 1

reforms 1, 2, 3

religion

Orthodox Christianity 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n

and Yakunin 1, 2

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 1

Rossiya Bank 1

Rumsfeld, Donald 1

Russia

alcoholism 1

birth rate 1

economy 1, 2, 3

environmental issues 1

geography of 1, 2, 3, 4

lawlessness 1, 2

life expectancy 1

living standards, Russian 1, 2, 3

population of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

ports 1, 2, 3

topography 1, 2, 3, 4

tourism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

tsars 1

‘typical’ outlook 1

violence in 1, 2, 3

weather 1, 2, 3

‘Russia 1917. Images of the Future’ (project) 1

Russian Olympic Committee 1, 2

Russian Orthodox Church Abroad 1n

Russian Railways 1, 2

‘best practice’ 1

control of 1

infrastructure 1

inspections 1

international agreements 1

leadership of 1, 2, 3

Nevsky Express incident (2009) 1

reforms 1, 2

Sapsan line 1

security measures 1

smears against 1