Tony Wood - Russia Without Putin - Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War

Cyprus, 77n

Czech Republic, 122, 123, 124

dal’noboishchiki (truck drivers), 110

Day of the Oprichnik (Sorokin), 160

Dead Again (Gessen), 74

Dead Souls (Gogol), 148

de Benoist, Alain, 151

Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTAs), 135, 136, 137

demographic trends, 162–64

migrants and, 164–65

Deripaska, Oleg, 30, 45, 95

Djilas, Milovan, 63

domestic violence, 71

Donbass (Ukraine), 132, 136, 167, 169–70

Dubin, Boris, 72, 74

Dugin, Aleksander, 151–55, 168

Duma (parliament)

business influences in, 40

demonstrations against, 89–90

opposition parties in, 92

parties in, 21, 22

women in, 70–71

Yeltsin’s attack on, 27

Easter, Gerald, 25

Eastern Europe

during collapse of Soviet Union, 12

European Union and, 135

expansion of NATO into, 121–24, 132

Egypt, 123, 139, 163, 176

Erofeev, Viktor, 73–74

ethnic groups in Russia, 165, 168–69

Etmanov, Aleksei, 94, 110

Eurasian Customs Union, 154

Eurasian Economic

Community, 134

Eurasian Economic Space, 154

Eurasian Economic Union, 134, 154

Eurasianism, 150–51

European Neighbourhood Project, 135

European Union (EU), 125

Eastern Europe and, 135–36

Russian trade with, 134

sanctions against Russia by, 29

Ukraine and, 138

federalism, 165–70

Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR), 76, 93

First Person (Putin), 11, 126

Flynn, Michael, 142

Ford (firm), 93

‘For Honest Elections’ (organization), 99

Foundations of Geopolitics (Dugin), 152

Freeman, Morgan, 143

Fridman, Mikhail, 40

Friedman, Milton, 108

Friedman, Thomas, 23, 122

Frost, David, 126

FSB, 15, 16, 17, 51n, 53

Furman, Dmitri, 26–27, 176–77

Gaidar, Yegor, 73

gas, 24, 34, 161

Gazprom (firm), 34, 36, 37, 94

gender inequality, 62, 70–71, 78

Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 121n

Georgia, 8, 26, 105, 113, 128–29, 134, 135, 105, 139, 155, 167, 176

Germany, 125, 128, 133, 156, 163

Gessen, Masha, 58, 74, 143

Gogol, Nikolay, 102n, 148

Goldgeier, James, 122

Gorbachev, Mikhail

coup attempt against, 16

economic reforms under, 12, 33, 160

Soviet foreign policy under, 118, 121

support among intelligentsia for, 73

view of West under, 115

Grudinin, Pavel, 173

Gryzlov, Boris, 22, 83

Gudkov, Lev, 72, 74

Gumilev, Lev, 150–51

Gunvor (firm), 30

Gusinsky, Vladimir, 33, 35, 40, 43, 45

Hayek, Friedrich, 108

Heritage Foundation, 23

Hoffman, David, 36

homelessness, 68

Homo sovieticus (‘Soviet man’), 57–58, 86, 90

housing, 66, 93

Humphrey, Caroline, 68

Hungary, 123, 124

Huntington, Samuel, 151

Il’in, Ivan, 153

income inequality, 61–62, 64–65, 77–78

intelligentsia, 71–74, 80–82

internet, 96, 143

Iraq, 127, 128, 129, 139, 140

Ivanov, Viktor, 48

Ivanov, Sergei (Sr), 48, 53

Ivanov, Sergei (Jr), 53

Jakobson, Roman, 150

Jewishness, 39n

Kaliningrad, 89, 95, 96

Kasparov, Garry, 101

Kennan, George, 122

Kerry, John, 137

KGB, 12, 16–17, 34, 49, 50

Khimki forest, 95–96

Khloponin, Aleksandr, 50, 53

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 23, 24, 31

currency speculation by, 33

imprisonment, 43

privatization and wealth of, 37, 41

Yukos under, 47

Kissinger, Henry, 124

Kohl, Helmut, 121n

Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 33, 37

Korzhakov, Aleksandr, 49

Kosovo, 7, 124, 127, 130, 131, 137, 145

Kovalchuk, Yuri, 15, 30, 55

Kozyrev, Andrei, 118, 120, 124–25

Kravchuk, Leonid, 119

Kryshtanovskaia, Olga, 33, 42, 49, 50

Kudrin, Aleksei, 15

Kunanbaev, Abai, 100

labour migration, 78–79

Lake, Anthony, 121

Lavrov, Sergei, 132, 141

League of Voters (organization), 99

Left Front (organization), 99, 101

Levada, Yuri, 80

Leviathan (Zvyagintsev), 55–56

LGBT rights, 101

Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), 22

liberal parties and opposition, 91–93, 99–100

Libya, 138–39

The Life of Insects (Pelevin), 75

Limonov, Eduard, 92

Lisin, Vladimir, 45

Lithuania, 69

LiveJournal blogs, 96

‘loans-for-shares’ deals, 41–42

Luzhkov, Yuri, 38

Mackinder, Halford, 153, 159

Maidan protests, see Ukraine

Major, John, 121n

Malofeev, Konstantin, 152

Markelov, Stanislav, 149n

McCain, John, 131

Medvedev, Dmitri, 15, 94, 96

economic policies of, 161

foreign policy of, 115, 130, 131

on Libya, 139–40

personal wealth of, 54, 103

Medvedev, Kirill, 81

Melikian, Gennadii, 71

Menatep Bank, 37

middle class, 82–85, 89, 97–98

migrants

hostility toward, 104, 105

Party of Progress on, 108

Russia’s demographic need for, 164–65

military spending

by Russia, 116, 156

by United States and NATO countries, 120, 156

‘militocracy,’ 25, 49–50

Mirsky, D. S., 150

Mitterrand, François, 121n

Mordashov, Aleksei, 45

Moscow (Russia), 38, 45–46, 65–66, 78

demonstrations in, 89, 92, 97, 98

homelessness in, 68

mayoral election in (2013), 102

‘Occupy Abai’ protest in, 99

Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), 79, 99

Munich Security Conference (2007), 129–30

‘Narod’ (‘The People’; organization), 105

National Bolshevik Party, 92, 152

NATO

expansion of, 7, 114, 121–24, 128, 132

possibility of Russia joining, 125–27, 130

Navalnyi, Aleksei, 7, 52–54, 91, 101–7

Party of Progress of, 107–12

Nemtsov, Boris, 86, 99

assassination of, 102

on US war in Afghanistan, 127

Neo-Eurasianism, 151–55

nepotism, 53–54

The New Class (Djilas), 63

New Cold War, 113–14, 143–44

New Economic Plan (NEP), 60

Nixon, Richard, 118

nomenklatura (Soviet-era elite), 63

Norilsk Nickel (firm), 34, 41, 45, 47, 50, 53

Nuland, Victoria, 124

Obama, Barack, 131, 132, 141, 148

‘Occupy Abai’ protest, 99

oil

price of, 21, 94, 160–61

privatization of, 24, 37

Orange Revolution (Ukraine), 128–29, 134

organized crime, 67

The Other Russia (opposition coalition), 92

Pamyat (organization), 152

Parfyonov, Leonid, 99

parliament, see Duma

Partnership for Peace, 123, 125

Party of Progress, 107–12

Patrushev, Nikolai, 15, 53

Pelevin, Viktor, 49, 75

pensions, 78

demographic changes and, 164

demonstrations linked to, 92–93

Party of Progress on, 109

Perry, William, 122

Pikalevo, 95

Pinochet, Augusto, 80n

Pirani, Simon, 93

Pirate Party, 99

Pishchikova, Evgeniia, 84–85

Poland, 68–69, 122, 123, 124

Politkovskaia, Anna, 23, 81

Portugal, 127

Potanin, Vladimir, 41, 45

poverty, 64–65, 85, 94

among women, 70

Primakov, Evgeny, 118, 49, 120, 124, 126, 140, 158

privatizations

consequences of, 66–67, 75

at end of Soviet period, 35–36

latent privatization, 34

under Yeltsin, 36–39

Prokhorov, Mikhail, 41, 45

Pussy Riot, 90, 101

Putin, Vladimir

biography of, 11–12

economic policies of, 23–27, 31

first presidential campaign of, 19–20

foreign policy of, 115, 126–28

as FSB director, 16–17

as KGB staffer, 12–13