27. ‘Medvedev’s Twitter obscenity provokes shock’, Reuters, 7 December 2011.
28. Gleb Bryanski, ‘Putin: On the pulse or out of touch with Russia’, Reuters, 15 December 2011.
29. Volkov, ‘The Protestors and the Public’.
30. ‘102 Tishyacha 486 Chelovek. My Schitali Po Golovam’, Novaya Gazeta, 24 December 2011, available at http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/50265.html.
31. Ibid.
32. Available at http://www.newstube.ru/media/naval-nyj-na-mitinge-my-est-vlast.
33. Ibid.
34. Ellen Barry, ‘Architect of Russia’s Political System under Putin is Reassigned’, The New York Times, 27 December 2011.
35. Available at http://anti-orange.ru/post/cat/6.
36. ‘Russian Tycoon Prokhorov Ready to Be PM wants to join euro zone’, RIA Novosti, 11 August 2011.
37. The video ‘Rossiya Bez Putina Welcome to Hell’ was removed from YouTube for breaking its code of conduct, available at http://vimeo.com/36281503.
38. Ibid.
39. Available at http://www.sergeyeva.ru/.
40. Timothy Heritage and Guy Faulconbridge, ‘Tearful Putin Wins Back Presidency’, Reuters, 4 March 2012; Yevgeniya Albats, ‘Golosovanie Kak Eto Bilo’, Novaya Vremia, 5 March 2012, available at http://www.newtimes.ru/articles/detail/50512.
41. Ibid.
42. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30oMuEo4eDw.
43. Available at http://kmartynov.livejournal.com/1692439.html.
Chapter Ten: Moscow Is Not Russia
1. Max Seddon, ‘Russian Opposition Fights To Stay Relevant,’ Associated Press, 16 December 2012.
2. For breakdown of regional HDI levels, see Alexander A. Auzan and Sergei Bobylev, National Human Development Report For the Russian Federation 2011: Modernization And Human Development, United Nations Development Program (Moscow, 2011), pp. 138–40, available at http://www.undp.ru/documents/nhdr2011eng.pdf.
3. Ibid.; Oleysa Geresamenko, ‘Budet Bedno, No Chisto I Krasivo, Kak V Belorussi’, Kommersant Vlast, 10 September 2012; Caleb Melby, ‘Moscow Beats New York, London, in List Of Billiobaire Cities’, Forbes, 16 March 2012, available at http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/03/16/moscow-beats-new-york-london-in-list-of-billionaire-cities/.
4. Figures available at http://www.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat/rosstatsite/main/account/#.
5. These figures are for 2008. That year Russian GDP was approximately $1.6 trillion and Moscow’s GNP was approximately $340 billion. Figures available at www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/vvp/vrp98-10.xls; ‘Global City GDP Rankings 2008–2025’, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 2009, available at https://www.ukmediacentre.pwc.com/imagelibrary/downloadMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=1562.
6. Available at http://www.undp.ru/index.phtml?iso=RU&lid=1&pid=1&cmd=text&id=187.
7. Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2012, Mercer (London, 2012), available at http://www.mercer.com/press-releases/cost-of-living-rankings.
8. Olesya Geresamenko, ‘My Ne Seperatist My Protiv Mosvky’, Kommersant Vlast, 14 May 2012.
9. Natalia Zubarevich, ‘Four Russias: Rethinking the Post-Soviet Map’, OpenDemocracy, 29 March 2012.
10. For a breakdown of regional HDI levels and life expectancy see Alexander A. Auzan and Sergei Bobylev, National Human Development Report For the Russian Federation 2011: Modernization And Human Development, United Nations Development Program (Moscow, 2011), pp. 138–140. Available at http://www.undp.ru/documents/nhdr2011eng.pdf.
11. Sergei Belanovsky, Mikhail Dmitriev, Svetlana Mishikhina and Tatyana Omelchuk, Socio-Economic Change And Political Transformation in Russia, (Moscow, 2011), p. 31.
12. Allen Lynch, Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft (Washington DC, 2010), p. 83.
13. Vladimir Putin, ‘Building Social Justice – A Social Policy for Russia’, 13 February 2012, available at http://www.russkiymir.ru/russkiymir/en/publications/articles/article0239.html; Gleb Bryanski, ‘Russia’s Putin calls for Stalin Style “leap forward”’, Reuters, 31 August 2012.
14. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPDkJbTQRCY.
15. Shaun Walker, ‘Pussy Riot Prisoners Sack Lawyers Who “Cashed in on Fame”’, The Independent, 20 November 2012.
16. Mikhail Dmitriev and Daniel Treisman, ‘The Other Russia: Discontent Grows in The Heartland’, Foreign Affairs, September–October 2012.
17. Miriam Elder, ‘Putin Says Pussy Riot “Got What They Asked for” as Jailed Women Appeal’, The Guardian, 8 October 2012.
18. Ellen Barry, ‘Leaving the Presidency in Russia, Medvedev Fights For Relevance’, The New York Times, 3 May 2012.
19. Available at http://navalny.livejournal.com/758143.html.
20. Steve Rosenberg, ‘Putin warns of foreign meddling in politics in Russia’, BBC, 12 December 2012.
21. Charles Clover, ‘Russian “civilization” stirs resentment’, Financial Times, 11 December 2012.
22. Max Seddon, ‘Russian Opposition Fights To Stay Relevant’, Associated Press, 16 December 2012.
23. Ibid.
24. ‘Russian Macro View: Consumption to Remain Strong for Now’, Citi Economics, 21 October 2011.
25. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
26. Christopher Granville and Irina Lebedeva, ‘The Consequences of Putin’s Big Spend’, Trusted Sources Emerging Markets and Consulting, 4 October 2011.
27. Ibid.
28. Ilya Arkhipov and Lyubov Pronina, ‘Russia Boosts Arms Spree to $613 billion, Seeks US Technology’, Bloomberg, 20 September 2010.
29. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
30. Granville and Lebedeva, ‘The Consequences of Putin’s Big Spend’.
31. Ksenia Galouchko, ‘Russia Must Cut Break-Even Oil Price to $80, Citigroup says’, Bloomberg, 2 June 2012.
32. Henry Meyer, ‘Putin Balks at Pensions Threat as Ageing Russians Hold Trump Card’, Bloomberg, 21 October 2010.
33. ‘Russian State Debt Lowest Amongst G-8 Countries – Putin’, RIA Novosti, 11 April 2012.
34. Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia (London, 2012), p. 458.