73. Doug Struck, ‘Gorbachev Applauds Putin’s Achievements’, The Washington Post, 5 December 2007.
74. Jonathan Powell, The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World (London, 2010), p. 310.
75. Sergei Markov, ‘Chto biet po demokratii’, 30 September 2006, available at http://dom.viper§son.ru/wind.php?ID=499115&soch=1?17f1fd40.
76. Yury Pavlov, Da Gospodin Prezident (Moscow, 2005)
77. ‘Russian NATO envoy sees “genocide” in South Ossetia’, Reuters, 9 August 2008.
78. William Maudlin, ‘Russia’s Rulers Popularity Declines as Elections Loom’, The Wall Street Journal, 25 August 2011.
Chapter Seven: Servant Medvedev
1. Vladimir Putin, First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President (London, 2000), p. 202.
2. Valery Panyushkin, 12 Who Don’t Agree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin’s Russia (New York, 2011), p. 235.
3. Daniel Treisman, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev (New York, 2011), p. 126.
4. Ibid. Anastasia Ustinova, ‘Medvedev Says He and Putin Have Same Blood, Make Good Team’, Bloomberg, 25 February 2010.
5. Speech at Inauguration Ceremony as President of Russia, 7 May 2008, available at http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/05/07/1521_type82912type127286_200295.shtml.
6. Richard Sakwa, ‘Dmitry Medvedev’s Challenge’, OpenDemocracy, 7 May 2008, available at http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/governments/dmitri_medvedev_s_challenge.
7. Katherine Hendley, ‘Who Are the Legal Nihilists in Russia’, Post-Soviet Affairs, April-June 2012.
8. Available at http://eng.da-medvedev.ru/.
9. Maxim Shishkin, ‘Rossiya Vybiraet Ostrovnoyu Taktiku’, Kommersant, 24 January 2008.
10. Ben Judah, Jana Kobzova, Nicu Popescu, Dealing with a post-BRIC Russia (London, 2011), p. 18.
11. Anders Aslund, Sergei Guriev and Andrew Kuchins (eds), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis (Washington DC, 2010), p. 27.
12. Ibid., p. xi.
13. Ibid.
14. Steven Pifer, ‘President Medvedev Rocks at Brookings’, Up Front, Brookings Institution, 15 April 2010, available at http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2010/04/15-medvedev-pifer.
15. Konstantin Gaaze and Darya Guseva, ‘Lezte s Meste’, Russky Newsweek, 16 March 2009.
16. Aslund, Guriev and Kuchins (eds), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis, p. xiv.
17. ‘Financial Times Launches Crisis in Capitalism Series’, Financial Times, 9 January 2012, available at http://aboutus.ft.com/2012/01/09/financial-times-launches-capitalism-in-crisis-series/#axzz2As88YIMp.
18. Dmitry Medvedev, ‘Go, Russia!’, 10 September 2010, available at http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/298.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Judah, Kobzova and Popescu, Dealing with a post-BRIC Russia, p. 20.
22. ‘Vse Vzyatki Moskvi’, Bolshoi Gorod, 21 February 2011.
23. ‘Korrupstionnaya Podstavlayushya,’ Kommersant, 1 December 2012. Available at http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2082860
24. Interview with Russian Embassy, London.
25. ‘Natural catastrophes 2010, Analyses, Assessments, Positions,’ Munich Re Topics Geo, February 2011.
26. ‘Putin, Pikalyovo and The Failure of the Vertical of Power’, United States Embassy Moscow, 15 June 2009. Available at http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/06/09MOSCOW1562.html.
27. C. J. Chivers, ‘Below Surface U.S. Has Dim View of Putin and Russia’, The New York Times, 1 December 2010.
28. David Hearst, ‘Putin We Have Lost Russia’s Trust’, The Guardian, 12 November 2011.
29. Gleb Pavlovsky, Genialnaya Vlast (Moscow, 2012), p. 48.
30. Vera Kholmogorova and Anastasia Kornya, ‘Medvedev Seeks List of Punished Officials’, The Moscow Times, 23 June 2010.
31. ‘Prezident Dmitri Medvedev Ne Dovolen Arkhaichnoi Sistemoi Upravlenia, Kotoraya, Po Evo Mneniu, Seichas Sushetvuyet V Rossii’, Ekho Moskvy, 7 June 2011, available at http://echo.msk.ru/news/782067-echo.html.
32. ‘Putin Situatziya V Kushchevskoi I Gus Khrustalnom – Proval Pravokhranitelnoi Sistemi’, http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=414405&tid=85093.
33. Valery Zorkin, ‘Konstitutsiya Protiv Kriminala’, Rossiskaya Gazeta, 10 December 2010.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Anders Aslund and Andrew Kuchins, The Russian Balance Sheet (Washington DC, 2009), p. 96.
38. Ibid.
39. Mikhail Dmitriev and Daniel Treisman, ‘The Other Russia: Discontent Grows in The Heartland’, Foreign Affairs, September-October 2012.
40. Ibid.
41. Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, ‘Why Russia Is Not South Korea’, Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2010.
42. Adam Balcer and Nikolai Petrov, The Future of Russia: Modernization or Decline (Warsaw, 2012), p. 86.
43. Yulia Fedorovina and Henry Meyer, ‘Putin Cabinet Endorses Deputy Premier’s Son for Farm Bank Job’, Bloomberg, 12 May 2011.
44. Vladimir Milov and Boris Nemtsov, Putin Itogi 10 Let (Moscow, 2010).
45. ‘Son of Rosneft CEO Joins Novatek’, The Moscow Times, January 2010; Vladislav L. Inozemtsev, ‘Neo-Fedualism Explained’, The American Interest, March–April 2011.
46. Rinat Sagdiev, ‘Im Prosto Pozvelo’, Vedomosti, 25 April 2011.
47. Alexandra Odynova, ‘Medvedev Questions Power Vertical’, The Moscow Times, 16 May 2011.
48. Ellen Barry, ‘Satirizing Putin with Boldly Poetic Flair’, The New York Times, 18 November 2011.
49. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BmnSDoU1Z0.
50. Ibid.
51. Amy Knight, ‘The Concealed Battle To Run Russia’, The New York Review of Books, 13 January 2011.
52. Catherine Belton and Charles Clover, ‘Putin to Return as Russia’s President’, Financial Times, 24 September 2011.
53. Ellen Barry, ‘Putin Once More Moves to Assume Top Job in Russia’, The New York Times, 24 September 2011.
54. Ibid.
55. ‘Putin Denies Russia Has Authoritarian System’, Agence France Presse, 20 December 2012.
Chapter Eight: Navalny and the Evolution of the Opposition
1. Anton Stepanov, ‘Life News Publikuyet Tanie Peregovori S Oppositianami’, Life News, 19 December 2011, available at http://lifenews.ru/news/77459.