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trolls 91

war of the avatars 112–16

‘invader’s syndrome’ 37

‘Invader’ video 34–5

Iran 16, 41, 93

and Russian sovereignty 55

Iraq 21, 23, 25, 39, 40

ISIS (Islamic State) 20, 21, 23, 24, 33, 41, 42, 46

and humanitarian aid 156

and IT 50, 52

Islamists 20, 21, 23, 49

IT (information technology) 48–52

innovation culture 50–1

military planning 78

network neutrality 49–50

Silicon Valley 131–2

and the Soviet Union 174–5

Ivan the Terrible viii–ix, 56, 62, 71, 212, 221, 245–6

Ivan’s Childhood (film) 200

Japan 98

Jerusalem 64

Jews 86, 121, 137, 185, 221

antisemitism 135, 137

the Holocaust 242

‘Jihadi John’ 20, 24

A Just Russia (political party) 25

Kabaeva, Alina 123, 125

Kachalov, Vasily 71–2

Kadyrov, Ramzan 24, 70

Kakhovsky, Pyotr 251

Kalatozov, Mikhail 200

Kaldor, Mary 23, 24

Kalinin, Mikhail 204

Kant, Immanuel 91

Kantorowicz, Ernst, The King’s Two Bodies 124

Karachinsky, Antoly 48

Karaganov, Sergei 222–3

Karagodin, Denis 238, 240, 241, 242

Karagodin, Stepan Ivanovich 238

Karajan, Herbert von 97

Karamzin, Nikolai 246

Kaspersky, Eugene 48, 51

Kaspersky Lab 48, 49

Kaspersky, Natalya 48

Kazakhstan 64

Kennedy, John F. 86

Kennedy, Paul 36

Khakassia, fire in 6

khalyava 187

Khinshtein, Alexander 241

Khlebnikov, Paul 231

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail 55, 188, 252

Kholmanskikh, Igor 78

Kholodov, Dmitry 231

Khrushchev, Nikita 51, 180–1, 215, 223, 246

de-Stalinization programme 210, 239

memorial to 191

and Victory Day 200

Khrustalyov, My Car! (film) 216

Khvat, Alexander 239

Kiev, Maidan Square demonstrations 84, 87, 195–6, 224, 226

Kildyushov, Oleg 106

King, Stephen 44

Kipling, Rudyard 27, 35, 36–7

Kirill, Patriarch 70

Kiselyov, Dmitry 8, 14, 90, 155, 163

Kjellén, Rudolf 30

Klimov, Elem 198

Klintsevich, Franz 44

Klyuchevsky, Vasily 246

Kolesnik, Vladimir 234

Komsomol 19

Kordonsky, Simon 82

Korolev, Sergei 74

Kosovo war 39, 40, 42, 223

Kozintsev, Grigory 211

Krasner, Stephen 54, 56, 57

Kremlin, the 56, 61–4

Krichman, Mikhail 162

Kuivashev, Yevgeny 243

Kukly (television series) 216

Kurile Islands 95

Kurilenko, Olga 214

Kursk, Battle of (1943) 77

Kuszyńska, Monika 167

Kuznetsova, Anna 146–7, 148

Kyrgyzstan 230

language wars 108–11

Latin America 22–3, 37

Latynina, Yulia 27

Le Pen, Marine 92

Lebedev, Igor 102

Lenin, V.I. 216, 234

Mausoleum 61, 62, 74, 96

Leningrad, siege of 236

Leshchenko, Pyotr 204

Leviathan (film) 161, 163, 164

Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 18, 25, 224

Libya 89, 93

Likhachev, Dmitry 211

linguistic nationalism 108–11

Listyev, Vladislav 231

Lithuania 20

Little Zaches: The Story of Putin from Beginning to End 216

Litvinenko, Alexander 231

Livanov, Dmitry 148

Lockerbie bombing 89

Lotman, Yuri, Culture and Explosion 99

Loveless (film) 161–4

Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) 21–5, 172, 196, 227

Lutsik, Pyotr 22

Lutsky, Alexander Nikolaevich 249–51, 252–5

McCain, John 32

McKenzie, Scott 132

McLaren Report 170, 173

Magnitsky, Sergie 231, 239

Makhachov, Gaji 65

Makhno, Nestor 22

Maksakov, Vladimir 21–2

Malaya Zemlya 201

Malenkov, Georgy 199, 215

Malofeev, Konstantin 50, 82

Mamardashvili, Merab 18–19

Mamleyev, Yury 211

Mandelstam, Nadezhda 211

Mandelstam, Osip 61–2

Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 69, 124

Markin, Vladimir 102

Martynov, Kirill 246

Massachusetts Institute of Technology see MIT

Mayakovsky, Vladimir 8

Mearsheimer, John 30

media, Russian media and the war in Syria 41

Medinsky, Vladimir 44, 243, 245

Medvedev, Dmitry 63, 133, 186, 243

men, and the culture of power and violence 142–4, 145

Merkel, Angela 82

MeToo movement 141

Mexico 98

MH17 (Malaysian airliner), shooting down of viii, xi, 24, 89, 90, 91, 114, 115, 163, 171, 172, 174, 242

Middle Ages, and the body of the sovereign 124, 126

migrants 26–9, 91, 92

migration crisis 91

Mikhalkov, Nikita 243, 245, 248

Mikoyan, Anastas 158

military-industrial complex 50, 51

and missile parades 75

military-patriotic hysteria 76–7

Milk, Harvey 132

Milonov, Vitaly 13, 15, 136, 164

Minchenko, Yevgeny 71

The Mirage of Enchanting Happiness (film) 251–2

Miss Universe contest 139

missile parades in Moscow 57, 73–5, 149

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 132

Mizulina, Elena 13, 136, 164

Molotov, Vyacheslav 215

Mongol Empire 182

Montenegro viii

Moore, Michael 199

Morozov, Alexander 15

Moscow

Architectural Institute 64

Biryulyovo pogroms 134

Bolotnaya Square protests (2011-12) 13, 48, 87, 106, 115, 158, 212, 226, 252

Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge memorial 229–32

Bolshoi Theatre 63, 198

coup of 1991 74, 79, 190, 193–4

‘Know your Moscow’ app 46–7

Kutuzovsky Prospekt 65–8

Lubyanka Square memorial 115

memorial plaques 186

missile parades 57, 73–5, 149

multicultural heritage 28

Pokémon in 43, 46–7

Presidential Administration headquarters 25

Red Square 61–2, 74

School No. 57 scandal 146, 147, 148, 240, 241

and separatist fighters in Ukraine 24–5

and the Sochi Olympics Torch Relay 94, 96

‘The Topography of Terror’ 47

University 63, 79

Victory Day in 198

Victory Memorial 201

‘wedding cake’ buildings 61

White House 79

see also Kremlin, the

Moskalkova, Tatyana 148

mourning in Russia 208–13

Mozgovoi, Alexei 21, 25

Mukharsky, Anton 165

multiculturalism 28, 132

Murray, Glen 133

Musk, Elon 79

Mussorgsky, Modest 5

Mutko, Vitaly 98

My Duck’s Vision (recording studio) 34–5

mysticism 148

Nabokov, Vladimir 216

The Gift 31

Invitation to a Beheading 194

Napoleon 51, 200

Nashestvie rock festival 76

Nashi movement 34

nation states 45

National Unity Day (4 November) 113, 114, 199

nationalism 25–9

NATO 32, 39, 46, 77–8, 84, 147, 223, 227–8

Navalny, Alexei 69, 161

Nazarov, Dan 113

Neizvestny, Ernst 191

Neklyaev, Vladimir 234

Nemtsov, Boris 115, 123, 143

murder of 229–30, 231–2

Netherlands 109

Nevsky, Alexander 245

new wars 23–4

Newton, Isaac 45

Nietzsche, Friedrich 227

On the Genealogy of Morality 219–20

Nigeria 21, 23, 25

Nikiforov, Nikolai 50

Nobel Peace Prizes 233

Nobel Prize for Literature 233, 237

Nora, Pierre 231

North American Indians, Potlatch festivals 156

North Caucasus 146

and the Olympic Torch Relay 95

terrorism in 114

North Korea 55, 74, 93

North Pole 94, 95

Novgorod Veche 245, 248

nuclear threats 8, 14, 90, 155

nuclear war 77–8

training sessions for 81

nuclear weapons, and Stalin 185

Nuremberg Trials 97

Obama, Barack 20, 49, 55, 82, 92, 114, 131

Occupy movement 46

oil exploration 9–10

Olympia (film) 97, 98

Olympic Games