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Dima Yakolev Law see adoption

disabled children 155, 166, 167

disabled people

and the Eurovision Song Contest 166, 167–8

lack of rights 166

and the Paralympics 166–7

Do the Russians Want War? (song) 200

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) 225

Dombrovsky, Yury 239

domestic violence 142, 152, 163, 240

Donbass 22, 24, 37, 38, 39, 41, 55, 84, 163, 165, 173, 237

and Victory Day 202, 203

see also Crimea

Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) 20, 21–5, 172, 196, 227

Donne, John 116

doping in sport 91

and the Paralympics 166–7

Sochi Olympics 169–71, 173

Dosteovsky, Fyodor 14, 19, 55, 113

The Brothers Karamazov 190, 220

The Demons 221

Notes from Underground 8, 220, 221

Dovgan, Irina 21

DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) 20, 21–5

drones 40

dubbing of films 109–10

Dubin, Boris 219

Dugin, Alexander 14, 20

Dulles Doctrine 86

Durov, Pavel 49

Dyushes (doping cocktail) 171

Dzerzhinsky, Felix 196, 213

Ecuador 22

EF (English First) 109

Eidelman, Natan 252

Elena (film) 161

Eliot, T.S. 195

English football fans 101–2

English language 108–11

English Revolution 124

Epstein, Mikhail 8

Erlikh, Sergei 252

Estemirova, Natalia 231

Etkind, Alexander, Warped Mourning 209–13

EU (European Union) 15, 32, 53, 73, 93, 152, 223

exports of foodstuffs from 154

Russian hackers’ interference in elections viii

and Ukraine 84, 227

Euclid 45

eugenics 119

European Football Championship (2016) 101–2

European Parliament, and ‘the Dadin list’ 241–2

Eurovision Song Contest 165–6, 167–8

Facebook 48, 49, 70

avatars 112, 113, 115

and the destruction of sanctioned food 154

and the US presidential elections 173

fake news 172

families, violence in 142, 240

family policy in Russia 128–9, 136

FARC guerrillas 22, 23

fascism

homophobic 136, 137

imaginary 212

myth of Ukrainian 226–8

fear, and Russia’s hybrid war 90–3

female genital mutilation 146

feminism, and beauty contests 138–9

festivals, and military-patriotic hysteria 76–7

films, dubbing of 109–10

Finland 34, 36

English language in 110–11

fires, grass burning 6–8, 183

First World War 77, 148, 213

Flaubert, Gustave 234

flower memorials 229–32

flower revolutions 230

Fogel, Brian 170

food

destruction of sanctioned foodstuffs 143, 154–6

Russian state’s war on cheese 154, 156, 157–60

sanctions 81, 83

football

Heysel Stadium tragedy 101

Russian football fans 92

thugs 101–4

World Cup 5, 71, 101, 170

Forbes magazine 20

Foreign Affairs 30

foreign languages 108–11

foreign policy

and fear 89–93

and Russian sovereignty 53–7

Foreign Policy (journal), list of ‘Agitators’ 20, 23, 24

forests

fires 6

and roads 4, 5

fortress towns 62–3

Foucault, Michel x, 120, 124, 137

France 196–7

Charlie Hebdo 112–13, 114

football hooligans in Marseilles 101–2, 104

foreign films in 109–10

‘hard’ memory 210–11

migrants 26

National Front 172

Palace of Versailles 124

post-imperial feelings 219

seventeenth-century 67

Franco-Prussian War 74

Frangulyan, Georgy 245

French Revolution 86, 124, 129

Freud, S. 55, 212, 213

Friedländer, Saul 210

Fry, Stephen 136, 216

FSB (Federal Security Service) 49, 83, 91, 171

FSO (Federal Protection Service) 63

Fujimori, Alberto 52

Fukuyama, Francis 23

Furtwängler, Wilhelm 97

future of Russia, crisis of belief in 96

Fyodorov, Yevgeny 114

G8 group of countries vii, 13, 109

Gaaze, Konstantin 83

Gagarin, Yury 47, 74

Gaidar, Yegor 222

Galich, Alexander, Petersburg Romances 252

Game of Thrones (TV series) 46

Gandhi, Indira 187

Gaulle, Charles de 159, 160

gays see homosexuality

Gazprom 9

Gelman, Vladimir 69–70

Genghis Khan 182

geopolitics 17, 30–3, 39, 42, 90, 91

Georgia 55, 74, 230

South Ossetia 196

German, Alexei 216

Germany

Berlin Olympics (1936) 94, 97–8

foreign films in 110

Nazi (Third Reich) 97, 105, 136, 148

biopolitics 120–1

concentration camps 208

de-Nazification 183, 185, 209, 210–11

and Ukrainian fascism 226–7

populism in 172

postwar 19

Weimar Republic 105, 113, 220

‘stab in the back’ theory 226, 228

Giddens, Anthony 90

Ginzburg, Yevgenia 211

glasnost 201

global cities, creative class in 132–3

global community, Russia as part of 115

global warming, and the Arctic 10

globalization

and geopolitics 32

and Moscow 28

rejection of 23, 25

and Russian sovereignty 54, 56

GLONASS satellite tracking system 48, 84

Gobineau, Count de 27

Goebbels, Josef 94, 97

Goering, Hermann 97

Goethe, Johann von 149

Golden Horde 28

Goncharov, Ivan, Oblomov 187–8

Google 79, 84, 173

Maps 45, 46

Gorbachev, Mikhail 92, 125, 186, 187–9, 239, 246

failed coup against (1991) 74, 79, 188–9, 190, 191, 193–7, 246

Nobel Peace Prize award 233

Goryunov, Maxim 7

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 152, 153

Granin, Daniil 200

grass burning 6–8, 183

Grass, Günter, The Tin Drum 18, 19

The Great Dictator (film) 215

Greece 230

Greenpeace 6

‘and the Arctic 11, 12

Russian seizure of the Arctic Sunrise 9, 10

Grossman, Vasily 211, 212

Grushin bard song festival 76

Grybauskaitė, Dalia 20

Gudkov, Dmitry 108, 109, 232

Guevara, Che 23

GULAGS 208, 210, 211, 213, 235

guns, education in the use of 152–3

Guriyev, Sergei 52

Gurtskaya, Diana 167

Habermas, Jürgen 105

hackers 91

Hegel, G.W.F. xi

Herzen, Alexander 252

Himmler, Heinrich 136

historical revisionism 179–82

Hitler, Adolf 97, 220

Hobbes, Thomas 91

Holocaust 137, 210, 242

homophobia 133

anti-gay laws ix, x, 13, 82, 121–2, 135, 144

test for 135–7

homosexuality

and complexity management 132–3

same-sex marriages 136, 137, 214, 216–17

human rights 13

and migrants 26

Human Rights Commissioner 148

Hungary 52

Soviet invasion of 77

Huntington, Samuel 16

hybrid war ix, 89–90, 173

and football thugs 102–4

special operations 171–5

in Syria 90, 91, 92, 104

in Ukraine 21–5, 104

hygiene policy 119–22

Iampolski, Mikhail 222, 227

Iannucci, Armando 215, 216, 217

Icarus (film) 170

Ilyin, Ivan 14

‘I’m not afraid to speak out’ (yaNyeboyusSkazat) flash mob 141–2, 147, 148, 163, 240

immigration, anti-immigration mood in Russia 133–4

imperialism ix, 28–9

India 74, 109

industrialization 35, 36

infantilism of Russian consciousness 17–19

information ‘bombs’ 155

Ingham, Bernard 88

innovation culture 50–1

International Memorial 47

International Space Station (ISS) 94

Internet 45, 49, 50, 52, 79

cyberattacks 92

digital hygiene 120

hackers 91

and imaginary threats 83, 84

League for a Safe Internet 82–3

and Russian sovereignty 56

and Russian special operations 173