Freeman, Morgan, 143
Fridman, Mikhail, 40
Friedman, Milton, 108
Friedman, Thomas, 23, 122
Frost, David, 126
FSB, 15, 16, 17, 51n, 53
Furman, Dmitri, 26–27, 176–77
Gaidar, Yegor, 73
gas, 24, 34, 161
Gazprom (firm), 34, 36, 37, 94
gender inequality, 62, 70–71, 78
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 121n
Georgia, 8, 26, 105, 113, 128–29, 134, 135, 105, 139, 155, 167, 176
Germany, 125, 128, 133, 156, 163
Gessen, Masha, 58, 74, 143
Gogol, Nikolay, 102n, 148
Goldgeier, James, 122
Gorbachev, Mikhail
coup attempt against, 16
economic reforms under, 12, 33, 160
Soviet foreign policy under, 118, 121
support among intelligentsia for, 73
view of West under, 115
Grudinin, Pavel, 173
Gryzlov, Boris, 22, 83
Gudkov, Lev, 72, 74
Gumilev, Lev, 150–51
Gunvor (firm), 30
Gusinsky, Vladimir, 33, 35, 40, 43, 45
Hayek, Friedrich, 108
Heritage Foundation, 23
Hoffman, David, 36
homelessness, 68
Homo sovieticus (‘Soviet man’), 57–58, 86, 90
housing, 66, 93
Humphrey, Caroline, 68
Hungary, 123, 124
Huntington, Samuel, 151
Il’in, Ivan, 153
income inequality, 61–62, 64–65, 77–78
intelligentsia, 71–74, 80–82
internet, 96, 143
Iraq, 127, 128, 129, 139, 140
Ivanov, Viktor, 48
Ivanov, Sergei (Sr), 48, 53
Ivanov, Sergei (Jr), 53
Jakobson, Roman, 150
Jewishness, 39n
Kaliningrad, 89, 95, 96
Kasparov, Garry, 101
Kennan, George, 122
Kerry, John, 137
KGB, 12, 16–17, 34, 49, 50
Khimki forest, 95–96
Khloponin, Aleksandr, 50, 53
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 23, 24, 31
currency speculation by, 33
imprisonment, 43
privatization and wealth of, 37, 41
Yukos under, 47
Kissinger, Henry, 124
Kohl, Helmut, 121n
Komsomol (Communist Youth League), 33, 37
Korzhakov, Aleksandr, 49
Kosovo, 7, 124, 127, 130, 131, 137, 145
Kovalchuk, Yuri, 15, 30, 55
Kozyrev, Andrei, 118, 120, 124–25
Kravchuk, Leonid, 119
Kryshtanovskaia, Olga, 33, 42, 49, 50
Kudrin, Aleksei, 15
Kunanbaev, Abai, 100
labour migration, 78–79
Lake, Anthony, 121
Lavrov, Sergei, 132, 141
League of Voters (organization), 99
Left Front (organization), 99, 101
Levada, Yuri, 80
Leviathan (Zvyagintsev), 55–56
LGBT rights, 101
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), 22
liberal parties and opposition, 91–93, 99–100
Libya, 138–39
The Life of Insects (Pelevin), 75
Limonov, Eduard, 92
Lisin, Vladimir, 45
Lithuania, 69
LiveJournal blogs, 96
‘loans-for-shares’ deals, 41–42
Luzhkov, Yuri, 38
Mackinder, Halford, 153, 159
Maidan protests, see Ukraine
Major, John, 121n
Malofeev, Konstantin, 152
Markelov, Stanislav, 149n
McCain, John, 131
Medvedev, Dmitri, 15, 94, 96
economic policies of, 161
foreign policy of, 115, 130, 131
on Libya, 139–40
personal wealth of, 54, 103
Medvedev, Kirill, 81
Melikian, Gennadii, 71
Menatep Bank, 37
middle class, 82–85, 89, 97–98
migrants
hostility toward, 104, 105
Party of Progress on, 108
Russia’s demographic need for, 164–65
military spending
by Russia, 116, 156
by United States and NATO countries, 120, 156
‘militocracy,’ 25, 49–50
Mirsky, D. S., 150
Mitterrand, François, 121n
Mordashov, Aleksei, 45
Moscow (Russia), 38, 45–46, 65–66, 78
demonstrations in, 89, 92, 97, 98
homelessness in, 68
mayoral election in (2013), 102
‘Occupy Abai’ protest in, 99
Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), 79, 99
Munich Security Conference (2007), 129–30
‘Narod’ (‘The People’; organization), 105
National Bolshevik Party, 92, 152
NATO
expansion of, 7, 114, 121–24, 128, 132
possibility of Russia joining, 125–27, 130
Navalnyi, Aleksei, 7, 52–54, 91, 101–7
Party of Progress of, 107–12
Nemtsov, Boris, 86, 99
assassination of, 102
on US war in Afghanistan, 127
Neo-Eurasianism, 151–55
nepotism, 53–54
The New Class (Djilas), 63
New Cold War, 113–14, 143–44
New Economic Plan (NEP), 60
Nixon, Richard, 118
nomenklatura (Soviet-era elite), 63
Norilsk Nickel (firm), 34, 41, 45, 47, 50, 53
Nuland, Victoria, 124
Obama, Barack, 131, 132, 141, 148
‘Occupy Abai’ protest, 99
oil
price of, 21, 94, 160–61
privatization of, 24, 37
Orange Revolution (Ukraine), 128–29, 134
organized crime, 67
The Other Russia (opposition coalition), 92
Pamyat (organization), 152
Parfyonov, Leonid, 99
parliament, see Duma
Partnership for Peace, 123, 125
Party of Progress, 107–12
Patrushev, Nikolai, 15, 53
Pelevin, Viktor, 49, 75
pensions, 78
demographic changes and, 164
demonstrations linked to, 92–93
Party of Progress on, 109
Perry, William, 122
Pikalevo, 95
Pinochet, Augusto, 80n
Pirani, Simon, 93
Pirate Party, 99
Pishchikova, Evgeniia, 84–85
Poland, 68–69, 122, 123, 124
Politkovskaia, Anna, 23, 81
Portugal, 127
Potanin, Vladimir, 41, 45
poverty, 64–65, 85, 94
among women, 70
Primakov, Evgeny, 118, 49, 120, 124, 126, 140, 158
privatizations
consequences of, 66–67, 75
at end of Soviet period, 35–36
latent privatization, 34
under Yeltsin, 36–39
Prokhorov, Mikhail, 41, 45
Pussy Riot, 90, 101
Putin, Vladimir
biography of, 11–12
economic policies of, 23–27, 31
first presidential campaign of, 19–20
foreign policy of, 115, 126–28
as FSB director, 16–17
as KGB staffer, 12–13
as prime minister under Yeltsin, 17–18
in St Petersburg, 13–15
support among intelligentsia for, 80, 81
Rasmussen, Anders Fogh, 130
Remington, Thomas, 38
Roldugin, Sergei, 55
Rotenberg, Arkady and Boris, 30, 55, 118
rouble
1998 crash in value of, 45
speculation in, 33
used by former Soviet states, 118
Rubtsovsk, 95
Russian March (2007), 104
Russian Orthodoxy, 101, 152–54
Russian Socialist Movement, 99
Russo-Georgian War (2008), 1, 105, 113, 131–32, 139, 155, 167
Ryklin, Mikhail, 74
Saakashvili, Mikheil, 131, 176
St Petersburg (Leningrad), 11, 13–15, 94
Salye, Marina, 14
sanctions, 29–30, 138
Savitsky, Pyotr, 150
Schmitt, Carl, 151, 153