under Yeltsin
Yekaterinburg Meat Processing Factory
Yeltsin, Boris
alcoholism under
army, humanizing
demise of Soviet Union
democracy under
fear of
Mafia seizing Uralkhimmash Corporation
organized crime syndicates under
Pavel Fedulev defrauding supporters
Professor Pechernikova under
struggle under
supporting legal reforms
Vladimir Rushailo under
Young Communist League
Yukos oil company
Zakharov, Alexander
Zara, persecution after Nord-Ost
Zhitomir
Zindan
Zone of Antiterrorist Operations
Zozulenko, Tatyana
Zyazikov, President
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 by Anna Politkovskaya
Translation copyright © 2004 by Arch Tait
Foreword © 2007 by Anne Applebaum
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Politkovskaya, Anna
[Putinskaia Rossiia. English]
Putin’s Russia : life in a failing democracy / Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : Harvill Press, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8250-0
ISBN-10: 0-8050-8250-6
1. Russia (Federation)—Politics and government—1991—2. Russia (Federation)—Social conditions—1991— 3. Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952—4. Russia (Federation)—Moral conditions. 1. Title.
DK510.763.P65213 2005
947.086—dc22
2005043756
First Holt Paperbacks Edition 2007