64. ‘Putin regrets that USSR did not fight’, Agence France Presse, 15 December 2011.
65. Natalia Ziganshina, ‘Nashi Uchebniki Formiruyut Kulturni Rasizm’, Gazeta.ru, 13 December 2012.
66. Steven Lee Myers, ‘Hazing Trial Bares Dark Side of Russian Military’, The New York Times, 13 August 2006.
67. Ibid.
68. Daniel Treisman, The Return Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (New York, 2011), p. 121.
Chapter Five: Putin’s Court
1. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEsO6HorDro.
2. Sergey Kolesnikov provided full documentation for his claims to the Financial Times, which verified them for the following article: Catherine Belton, ‘A Realm Fit for a Tsar’, Financial Times, 30 November 2011.
3. ‘Gunvor: Riddles, Mysteries and Enigmas’, The Economist, 5 May 2012.
4. Gennady Timchenko, ‘Gunvor, Putin and Me – The Truth about Russian Oil Trader’, Financial Times, 22 May 2008.
5. Andrew E. Kramer and David M. Herszenhorn, ‘Midas Touch in St Petersburg: Friends of Putin Glow Brightly’, The New York Times, 1 March 2012.
6. ‘Gunvor’s Roots’, The Economist, 5 May 2012.
7. ‘In Search of Putin’s Money’, Al Jazeera, 20 April 2012.
8. Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov and Olga Shorina (eds), Putin Itogi (Moscow, 2011). Available at http://www.putin-itogi.ru/putin-i-korruptsiya/.
9. Forbes 2000 and 2008 billionaires list, available at http://stats.areppim.com/listes/list_billionairesx00xwor.htm and http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Boris Nemtsov and Leonid Martinyuk, Zhizn Rab Na Galerakh (Moscow, 2012). Available at http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/2012/120827_Russia_Pamphlet.pd.
16. Ibid.
17. Caleb Melby, ‘Moscow Beats New York, London, in List of Billionaire Cities’, Forbes, 16 March 2012.
18. Tony Wood, ‘Collapse as Crucible: The Reforging of Russian Society’, New Left Review, vol. 74, March–April 2012.
19. Ibid.
20. Vladimir Putin, First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President (London, 2000), p. 182.
21. Dmitry Zhdannikov, ‘Russia Davos Party Has Unusual Opposition Flavor’, Reuters, 28 January 2012.
22. Available at http://files.vpro.nl/wikileaks/cable/2009/03/09MOSCOW532.html.
23. ‘Dokhodi Semi Pervovo Vitze-Premera RF Igor Shuvalov’, RIA Novosti, 28 March 2012. Available at http://ria.ru/society/20120412/624180449.html.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Catherine Belton, ‘Shuvalov Case Raises Croneyism Questions’, Financial Times, 27 March 2012.
28. These allegations were made by Alexey Navalny who posted documents backing up his claims online, which were confirmed as real by a Moscow law firm. Available at http://navalny.livejournal.com/697198.html#cutid1; Andrew Kramer, ‘Activist Presses For Inquiry Into Senior Putin Official’, The New York Times, 30 March 2012.
29. Alexey Kudrin, ‘Otveti na Voprosi’. Available at http://akudrin.ru/news/otvety-na-voprosy.html#.T4Szz3lJri8.twitter.
30. ‘Letters’, The Economist, 2 September 2010.
31. Viktor Cherkesov, ‘Nelziya Dopustit, Stobi Voini Prevratilis V Torgovets’, Kommersant, 9 October 2007.
32. Vladimir L. Inozemtsev, ‘Neo-Feudalism Explained’, The American Interest, March-April 2011.
33. ‘Wife Serenades Russia’s NATO Envoy about “Making Love”’ (video), Agence France Presse, 6 November 2010.
34. Simon Shuster, ‘Vladimir Putin: When Family Is Virtually A State Secret’, Time, 16 June 2011.
35. Letter from Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge, Cologne, May 1843. Available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_05-alt.htm.
36. Gleb Pavlovsky, Genialnaya Vlast (Moscow, 2012), p. 7.
Chapter Six: Dizzy with Success
1. Vladimir Sorokin, Journée d’un Opritchnik (Paris, 2008).
2. Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, ‘A Normal Country: Russia after Communism’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2005).
3. Ibid.
4. David Hoffman, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (New York, 2002), p. 411.
5. IMF and World Bank Data, available at http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DATASTATISTICS/Resources/GDP_PPP.pdf; http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/weodata/download.aspx; http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.KD?order=wbapi_data_value_2005+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc&page=1.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia (London, 2012), p. 360.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Charles Clover, ‘Lunch with the FT – Alexander Lebedev’, Financial Times, 27 July 2012.
13. The Economist Pocket World in Figures 2012 Edition, (London, 2011), pp. 50–60.
14. Konstantin Rozhnov, ‘Russia attracts investors despite image’, BBC News, 30 November 2007.
15. Anders Aslund, Sergei Guriev and Andrew Kuchins (eds), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis (Washington DC, 2010) p. 20.
16. Marshall Goldman, Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia (Oxford, 2008), p. 81.
17. Mikhail Dmitriev and Daniel Treisman, ‘The Other Russia: Discontent Grows in the Heartland’, Foreign Affairs, September–October 2010; Aslund, Guriev and Kuchins (eds), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis, p. 12.
18. World Bank. Data, available at http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD?order=wbapi_data_value_2011+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc.
19. Aslund, Guriev and Kuchins (eds), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis, p. 12.
20. ‘Putin’s Russia: Call Back Yesterday’, The Economist, 3 March 2012.
21. Ibid.