We cannot just sit back and watch a political winter close in on Russia for several more decades. We want to go on living in freedom. We want our children to be free and our grandchildren to be born free. This is why we long for a thaw in the immediate future, but we alone can change Russia’s political climate. To wait for another thaw to drift our way from the Kremlin, as happened under Gorbachev, is foolish and unrealistic, and neither is the West going to help. It barely reacts to Putin’s antiterrorist policies, and finds much about today’s Russia entirely to its taste: the vodka, the caviar, the gas, the oil, the dancing bears. The exotic Russian market is performing as the West has come to expect, and Europe and the rest of the globe are satisfied with the way things are progressing on our sixth of the world’s landmass.
All we hear from the outside world is “al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda,” a wretched mantra for shuffling off responsibility for all the bloody tragedies yet to come, a primitive chant with which to lull a society desiring nothing more than to be lulled back to sleep.
INDEX
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Abramochkin, Detective
Abramov, Nikolai
Academy of Eurhythmic Art
Afghan wars
Akakievich, Akaky
alcoholism
Alexeeva, Olga
Alpha Bank
Alskhanov, Said Mahomed
Altshul, Yury
Amnesty International
Andropov, Yury
Antiterrorist Operation Whirlwind
Antonov, Yevgeny
Anuchina Island
APC (armored personnel carrier)
No.
No
of Yury Budanov
Argun Ravine
army
death of Misha Nikolaev
defection from Twentieth Division
live burial of Private Chesnokov
Nina Levurda suit against
officers, mistreatment of. See mistreatment of officers organizations surrounding
peculiarities of Russians
pursuit of Basaev
Putin’s influence on
soldier, mistreatment of. See mistreatment of soldiers
suffocation of Dmitri Kiselev
suicide of Yury Diachenko
Valerii Putintsev
Army Unit 13206
Army Unit 13815
Army Unit 42839
Army Unit 73881
Artemiev, Major
Article 222, Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
Artillery Academy
Aslakhanov, Aslambek
ATMs
Aushev, Ruslan
Award of Merit of Russian Federation
Bagreev, Lieutenant Roman
charges against Fedorov and Budanov
Ivan Makarshanov as witness for
Yury Budanov torturing
Baidukov, Judge Valerii
Bakriev, Abubakar
Balashika
Balashov, District Judge
Baraev, Movsar
Berg Park
Berlin Wall
Berlusconi, Silvio
Beslan
Blair, Tony
Bogorodskoe Department of Internal Affairs
Bogoslovskoe Ore Agency
Bolonina, Judge
Boronenkov, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
Brezhnev, Leonid
bribing officials
Anatoly Krizsky
as condition for success
in hospitals, after Nord-Ost incident
of law enforcement agencies
Ministry of Defense on
Tanya, example of Neo-Soviet capitalism
Bryansk
Bryansk Committee of Soldier’s Mothers
Buchnev, Lieutenant Yury
Budanov, Colonel Yury
abduction and murder of Elza Kungaeva
Federov in case against
forensic evidence and acquittal
indictment of
Lieutenant Roman Bagreev, victim of
precedent of
psychiatric reports about
public opinion on
sentencing of
trial proceedings
witnesses against
Budanov Case II
Bukreev, Judge Vladimir
Bulgakov, Yuri
Bush, George W.
Cabinet of Ministers
cases brought
Case No. 142 114, stock market fraud
Case No. 229133, Nord-Ost tragedy
Case No. 474802, murder of Andrey Sosnin
Case No. 528006, murder of Yury Altshul
Case No. 76002, killings in Dai
Case No. 772801, murder of Andrey Yakushev
Central Agency for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP)
Central Forensic Medical Laboratory
Central Intelligence Directorate (GRU)
Central North Caucasus Forensic Laboratory
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Chechen terrorists
Beslan
Nord-Ost
Chechen wars
first. See first Chechen war
General Shamanov in
second. See second Chechen war
Chechens, persecution of
Abubakar Bakriev fired
Aelita Shidaeva arrested
after Nord-Ost tragedy
Alihan Gelagoev, beating of
Aslan Kurbanov, drug charges against
death of Timur Khaziev
Isita Chirgizova arrested
Natasha Umatgarieva arrested
Sirazhdi Digaev, school discrimination against
state retribution in
Zelimham Nasaev, police harrassment of
Chechnya
Army Unit 42839 in
customary law in
Fifty-eighth Army in
fighting international terrorism in
Maria-Mariam as saint in
martyrs in
mass murder in
parents’ fear of
Rinat serving it
suicide of women
war criminals in. See war criminals
wave of war crimes in
Cheka secret police
Cherepkov, Victor
Cherepnev, Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly
Chernenko, Konstantin
Chernetsov, Danila
Chesnokov, Private
children, murder of
Chirac, Jacques
Chirgizova, Isita
Chkalov court
Chronicle of Current Events
Chukotka Province
Chupakhin, Sergey
CID authorities
Citizen’s Aid Committee for Assistance to Refugees and Displaced Persons
Code of Civil Procedure
Code of Criminal Procedure
Committee for Financial Recovery
Communal Services
Communist Party
holdovers from
nomenklatura
seizure of Uralkhimmash Corporation
Valerii Dorogin in
Copper King of the Urals
corruption
analysis of
bribing officials. See bribing officials
in courts
of institutions maintaining law and order
judges resisting
of legal system
of Pavel Fedulev. See Fedulev, Pavel
of Urals judiciary
Council of People’s Commissars
courts
compensating Nord-Ost victims
corruption in
European Court of Human Rights
hierarchy of control
Krasnaya Presnya District
Moscow City
North Caucasus District Military
procedure in
qualifications of judges