35. Ibid., p. 459.
36. Charles Clover, ‘Russia: Ascent and Dissent’, Financial Times, 11 July 2011; Alexander Kolyandr, ‘Capital Flight from Russia Still on Rise’, The Wall Street Journal, 3 October 2012.
37. Infographic of regional results, available at http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20111208/169491066.html.
38. Dmitriev and Treisman, ‘The Other Russia’.
39. I use the term technically as the GRP is calculated based on the regions’ natural resources. Inhabitants are not living, for the most part, like Americans. Figures available at www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/vvp/vrp98-10.xls; Russian Regions: Facts And Figures, National Human Development Report Russian Federation 2008: Russia Facing Demographic Challenges, United Nations Development Program, (Moscow, 2009) available at http://www.undp.ru/documents/NHDR_2008_Eng.pdf.
40. Miriam Elder, ‘Doll ‘Protesters’ Present Small Problem for Russian Police’, The Guardian, 26 January 2012. Olesya Geresamenko, ‘Tak Colonia Bilo, Tak I Ostanetsya’, Kommersant Vlast, April 2012.
41. Simon Shuster, ‘Pskov, Russia: Moonshine, Population Crisis Threaten Region’, Time, 9 May 2011.
42. ‘Kaluga: Be Successful’, Kaluga Development Corporation (Kaluga, 2012).
43. Ibid.
44. Doing Business in Russia: Your Tax And Legal Lighthouse (Moscow, 2012), p. 8.
45. Dmitry Vinogradov, ‘Pochemu Yaroslavl Ne Golosuyet Za ‘Medvedei’ I Shto On Dumaet O Putine’, RIA Novosti, 13 February 2012.
46. Infographic with regional results, available at http://en.rian.ru/infographics/20120304/171705949.html.
47. Ellen Barry, ‘Official Puts Career at Risk with Diatribe on Kremlin’, The New York Times, 9 June 2009.
48. Daniel Treisman, The Return: Russia’s Journey from Putin to Medvedev (New York, 2011), p. 284.
49. Russian 2010 Census, available at http://www.perepis-2010.ru/.
50. Michael Schwirtz, ‘Russian Anger Grows over Chechnya Subsidies’, New York Times, 8 October 2011.
51. ‘Kak Vy Otnositsiya K Idee ‘Rossiya – Dlya Russkih’, Levada Center, 9 October 2011, available at http://www.levada.ru/archive/mezhetnicheskie-otnosheniya/kak-vy-otnosites-k-idee-rossiya-dlya-russkikh; Polling from Levada Center also available in Ben Judah, Jana Kobzova and Nicu Popescu, Dealing with a Post-BRIC Russia (London, 2011), p. 22.
52. ‘Kakie Chustva Vy Lichno Ispitivaet Po Otnosheniu K Vyhotsam Iz Yughnikh Respublik Prozhivayushikh v Vashem Gorode, Raione?’, Levada Center, 9 October 2011, available at http://www.levada.ru/archive/mezhetnicheskie-otnosheniya/kakie-chuvstva-vy-lichno-ispytyvaete-po-otnosheniyu-k-vykhodtsam.
53. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVVN0j54YQ.
54. Available at http://navalny.livejournal.com/627082.html.
55. Available at http://echo.msk.ru/blog/milov/823340-echo/.
56. Mikhail Alexseev, ‘Rubles against the Insurgency: Paradoxes from the North Caucasus Countries’, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no. 157, May 2011.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Schwirtz, ‘Russian Anger Grows over Chechnya Subsidies’.
60. Ibid.
61. Figures available at http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/19591/; Mark Kramer, ‘Prospects For Islamic Radicalism and Violent Extremism in the North Caucasus and Central Asia’, PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo no. 28, August 2008; ‘Eto’o Signs with Anzhi’, Agence France Presse, 25 August 2011.
62. Figures available at http://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/19641/.
63. Kadyrov Russia’s Most Charismatic Regional Leader, Is Marking Birthday, Itar-Tass, 5 October 2011; ‘Pressa Uznala, Skolko Kadyrov Travit Na Elitnikh Konei – Dengi Vidmo Daet Allah’, Newru.com, 15 December 2011, available at http://www.newsru.com/russia/15dec2011/loshad.html.
64. Luke Harding, ‘WikiLeaks cables: Chechnya’s ruler, a three-day wedding and a golden gun’, The Guardian, 1 December 2010.
65. Svetlana Emalyanova, ‘Ramzan Kadyrov: Dengi Chechne Daet Allah’, Rossiskaya Gazeta, 6 October 2011.
66. ‘Alexander Tkachev Uznala Kazakam Na Kavkaz’, Kommersant Vlast, 6 August 2012.
67. ‘V Kakom Mere Federalnie Vlasti Seichas Kontroliruyet Polozhenie Del V Chechne’, Levada Center, 1 September 2010.
Chapter Eleven: Moscow the Colonialist
1. Olesya Geresamenko, ‘My Ne Za Seperatism, My Protiv Moskvi’, Kommersant Vlast, 14 May 2012.
2. Ibid.
3. Oleysa Geresamenko, ‘Budet Bedno, No Chisto I Krasivo, Kak V Belorussi’, Kommersant Vlast, 10 September 2012.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. ‘Russie Un Autoportrait: Vingt ans après la fin de l’URSS’, Courier Internationale, September-October-November 2011, p. 15.
7. Olesya Geresamenko, ‘My Ne Za Seperatism, My Protiv Moskvi’, Kommersant Vlast, 14 May 2012.
8. Vladimir Putin, First Person: an Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President (London, 2000), p. 186.
9. Levada Polls available in Ben Judah, Jana Kobzova and Nicu Popescu, Dealing with A Post-BRIC Russia (London, 2011), p. 22.
10. Maria Lipman and Nikolay Petrov (eds), Russia in 2020: Scenarios for the Future (Washington DC, 2012) p. 143.
11. Ibid.
12. Mikhail Dmitriev and Sergei Belanovsky, ‘Kak My Teper Dumaem: Revolutisia Ne Obzatalno Dolzhna Byt Karvnoi’, Vedomosti, 24 October 2012.
13. Available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4atPDPKyz2I.
14. Ibid.
15. World Bank Indicators, available at http://data.worldbank.org/country/russian-federation; ‘Russian Defence Industry Production up 2.5 per cent in 1Q2009’, RIA Novosti, 2 June 2009.
16. Full text available at http://gplanost.x-berg.de/gplanost.html.
17. Russian Economic Report 2010, The World Bank (Moscow, 2010), p. 21.
18. Peter Leonard, ‘Tank Towns symbolizes Putin’s campaign’, Associated Press, 28 February 2012.
19. ‘Taina Kladbusha Seks-Rabnikh: Pochemu Za Pyat Let Evo Ne Nashli’, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 3 February 2007.
20. Jarett Zigon, ‘Russia’s Heroin Epidemic; Why the Government Is Ducking the Issue?’, Opendemocracy, 4 February 2011.
21. United Nations World Drugs Report 2010, available at http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/WDR-2010.html’; Russia Blames US for “Heroin Tsunami Sweeping Russia”’, BBC News, 1 April 2010.