22. ‘Russia and HIV/AIDS: Opportunities for Leadership and Cooperation’, Brookings Institution, May 2005, available at http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2005/05/russia; ‘Russian Health and Demography: A Sickness of the Soul’, The Economist, 7 September 2006.
23. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, ‘The Heroin Epidemic Sweeping Russia’, BBC News, 3 April 2010.
24. Vasily Sigariev, Black Milk (London, 2012) p. 35.
25. ‘Interview with Kremlin Boss Vladislav Surkov’, Der Spiegel, 20 June 2005.
26. Figures available at http://www.gks.ru/dbscripts/Cbsd/DBInet.cgi?pl=2322048.
27. ‘Yakob – 6.5 per cent, Porunov – 3.3 per cent, Roizmann – 26.5 per cent’, Ura.ru, 21 November 2012, available at http://ura.ru/content/svrd/24-09-2012/articles/1036258447.html.
Chapter Twelve: Chinese Nightmares
1. Oleysa Geresamenko, ‘Budet Bedno, No Chisto I Krasivo, Kak V Belorussi’, Kommersant Vlast, 10 September 2012.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Mark Leonard, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (London, 2005); ‘Statement of Principles’, Project for a New American Century, 3 June 1997, available at http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm.
5. Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World (London, 2009).
6. Sergey Karaganov, ‘Russia’s Asian Strategy’, Russia in Global Affairs, 2 July 2011.
7. Andrei Kalachinsky, ‘The Russian Far East’, Russian Analytical Digest, 12 July 2010.
8. Data available at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html.
9. Available at http://www.sipri.org/databases/milex.
10. Ben Judah, Jana Kobzova and Nicu Popescu, Dealing with A Post-BRIC Russia (London, 2011), p. 39.
11. Available at http://csis.org/node/24824/multimedia.
12. James Reardon Anderson, Reluctant Pioneers: China’s Expansion Northwards 1644–1937 (Stanford, 2005), p. 89.
13. Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA, 2006), pp. 309–11.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 312.
18. Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval (London, 1982) p. 48.
19. Judah, Kobzova and Popescu, Dealing with A Post-BRIC Russia, p. 39.
20. ‘Dalniy Vostok Dolzhen Stat’ Blizhnim’, RBK Daily, 26 September 2008, available at http://www.rbcdaily.ru/2008/09/26/focus/382248.
21. Judah, Kobzova and Popescu, Dealing with A Post-BRIC Russia, p. 39.
22. ‘Heilongjiang leases land, grows crops in Russia’, China Daily, 29 May 2010, available at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-05/29/content_9907873.htm.
23. Andrew E. Kramer, ‘China’s Hunger Fuels Exports in Remote Russia’, The New York Times, 9 June 2010, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/business/global/10ruble.html.
24. ‘Birobidzhan, Stalin’s Soviet Zion: An Illustrated History’, Swarthmore College (2001), available at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Home/News/biro/.
25. ‘Russia’s APEC Summit in Vladivostok’, British Embassy Moscow, 21 September 2012, available at http://www.ukti.gov.uk/export/countries/europe/easterneurope/russia/premiumcontent/376980.html.
26. Anna Nemtsova, ‘Shrinking Siberia: Why Young People Are Fleeing Russia’s Far East’, Newsweek, 17 September 2012.
27. ‘Grazhdanski Aktivisit Vyyasnyat, Kak Razborvali Dengi Sammit Ates’, Globalsib.ru, 23 July 2012.
28. Ibid.
29. ‘15 Billion Rubles Stolen During APEC Summit’, The Voice Of Russia, 13 November 2012.
30. Oleysa Geresamenko, ‘Budet Bedno, No Chisto I Krasivo, Kak V Belorussi’, Kommersant Vlast, 10 September 2012.
31. ‘Russian Elections Marred By Low Turnout’, RIA Novosti, 14 October 2012.
32. ‘Russian Government Plans Far Eastern Republic – Paper’, RIA Novosti, 20 April 2012.
33. Available at http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/10/18/russia-new-video-from-primorsky-krai-guerrillas/.
34. Ibid.
35. Lucy Ash, ‘Why Russians backed anti police rage’, BBC News, 25 November 2010.
36. ‘A third of Russians wish they could shoot dead corrupt officials’, RT, 23 June 2011.
Conclusion: The Ghosts
1. Vladimir Putin, First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President (London, 2000), p. 139.
2. Ellen Barry, ‘Putin Once More Moves to Assume Top Job in Russia’, The New York Times, 24 September 2011.
3. ‘The State of Russia: Frost at the Core’, The Economist, 9 December 2010.
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