The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (39 page)
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Authors: Masha Gessen
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resemblance to Mussolini:
Unpublished memo leaked to me by Berezovsky’s team in November 1999.
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“Everyone was so tired of Yeltsin”:
Author interview with Marina Litvinovich, July 1, 2008.
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“My friends … My dears”:
Boris Yeltsin’s address, Dec. 31, 1999. Text:
http://stra.teg.ru/library/national/16/0
. Accessed May 6, 2011. Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvSpiFvPUP4&feature=related
. Accessed May 6, 2011.
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“Russia’s new century”:
Vladimir Putin’s address, Dec. 31, 1999. Text:
http://stra.teg.ru/library/national/16/2/print
. Accessed May 6, 2011. Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4LLxY4RPwk
. Accessed May 6, 2011.
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“Berezovsky would keep calling me”:
Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.
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“He was working directly for the enemy”:
Pavel Gutiontov, “Zauryadnoye delo.”
http://www.ruj.ru/authors/gut/100303_4.htm
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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“This is February 6, 2000”:
Transcript of a Feb. 9, 2000, NTV newscast.
http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539
. Accessed May 7, 2011.
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attempt to break free:
Andrei Babitsky,
Na voine
, transcripts of Russian-language recordings of a book manuscript prepared for a French publisher.
http://somnenie.narod.ru/ab/ab6.html
. Accessed May 7, 2011.
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face charges of forgery:
Transcript of Andrei Babitsky’s press conference on March 1, 2000.
http://archive.svoboda.org/archive/hr/2000/ll.030100-3.asp
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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probably been no exchange:
Oleg Panfilov,
Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo
,
chapter 3
.
http://www.library.cjes.ru/online/?a=con&b_id=426&c_id=4539
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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“the information he transmitted”:
Panfilov,
Istoriya Andreia Babitskogo.
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funded by an act of Congress:
Broadcasting Board of Governors FAQ.
http://www.bbg.gov/about/faq/#q6
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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issued a statement condemning:
Congressional Research Service report, “Chechnya Conflict: Recent Developments,” updated May 3, 2000.
http://www.fas.org/man/crs/RL30389.pdf
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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“The Babitsky story
”
:
Author interview with Natalya Gevorkyan, June 2008.
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returned to the car and left:
For the chronology of events in Ryazan, I have relied primarily on Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky,
FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu
, 2nd ed. (New York: Liberty Publishing, 2004), pp. 65–108, which combines many press reports with original reporting, and on
Ryazanski sahar: Nezavisimoye rassledovaniye s Nikolayem Nikolayevym
, the NTV television program that aired on March 24, 2000.
http://video.yandex.ru/users/provorot1/view/54/
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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in at least one of the Moscow explosions:
“13 sentyabrya v Rossii—den’ traura po pogibshim ot vzryvov,” an unsigned news story on Gazeta.ru, Sept. 10, 1999.
http://gazeta.lenta.ru/daynews/10-09-1999/10mourn.htm
. Accessed May 8, 2011.
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“The more alert we are”:
ITAR-TASS, as cited by Litvinenko and Felshtinsky,
FSB vzryvayet Rossiyu.
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“First, there was no explosion”:
Ryazanski
sahar
.
THREE. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A THUG
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the Siege of Leningrad:
Michael Jones,
Leningrad: State of Siege
(New York: Basic Books, 2008).
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“Imagine a soldier”:
Ales’ Adamovich and Daniil Granin,
Blokadnaya kniga
.
http://lib.rus.ec/b/212340/read
. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
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Burzhuikas
:
Harrison Salisbury,
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. vii–viii.
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a wood-burning stove in every room:
Oleg Blotsky,
Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni
(Moscow: Mezhdunarodniye Otnosheniya), p. 24.
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His parents … had survived the siege:
Gevorkyan et al.
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twice as many women:
Yuri Polyakov, Valentina Zhitomirskaya, and Natalya Aralovets, “‘Demograficheskoye ekho’ voyny,” published in the online journal
Skepsis
.
http://scepsis.ru/library/id_1260.html
. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
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given him up for adoption:
Irina Bobrova, “Kto pridumal Putinu gruzinskiye korni?”
Moskovski komsomolets
, June 13, 2006.
http://www.compromat.ru/page_18786.htm
. Accessed Feb. 7, 2011.
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inclined to believe the story:
Author interview with Natalia Gevorkyan, June 2008.
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the Putins’ apartment:
Childhood friend Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky,
Vladimir Putin: Istoriya zhizni
, pp. 72, 89.
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a striking assertion:
Gevorkyan et al.
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the Putins emerge as practically rich:
Yevgeniy Putin, quoted in Blotsky, p. 46.
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“Some courtyard this was”:
Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, pp. 68–69.
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“
If anyone ever insulted him”:
Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 68.
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“The labor [shop] teacher”:
Viktor Borisenko, quoted in Blotsky, p. 67.
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“Why did you not get inducted”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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as a sixth-grader:
Teacher Vera Gurevich, quoted ibid.
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“
We were playing”:
Grigory Geilikman, quoted in Blotsky, p. 160.
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“We were in eighth grade”:
Nikolai Alekhov, quoted in Blotsky, p. 161.
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“He once invited me”:
Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
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“Someone picked on him”:
Ibid.
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hand-to-hand combat:
Blotsky, p. 259.
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theme song from the miniseries:
“S vyslannymi iz SshA razvedchikami vstretilsya Vladimir Putin,” July 25, 2010.
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/07/25/spies/
. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.
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“When I was in ninth grade”:
Blotsky, p. 199.
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subversive troops:
Y. Popov, “Diversanty Stalina.”
http://militera.lib.ru/h/popov_au2/01.html
. Accessed Feb. 25, 2011.
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one of only four survivors:
Gevorkyan et al.
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“some intelligence officer for sure”:
Ibid.
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“A man came out”:
Blotsky, pp. 199–200.
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“He surprised everyone”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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Putin graduated from secondary school:
Blotsky, p. 155.
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number of cars:
http://www.ref.by/refs/1/31164/1.html
. Mikhail Blinkin, “Avtomobil’ v gorode: Osobennosti natsionalnogo puti,”
http://www.intelros.ru/pdf/arc/02_2010/42-45%20Blinkin.pdf
. Accessed Oct. 27, 2011.
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gave the car to their son:
Gevorkyan et al.
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Putin made a thousand rubles:
Ibid.
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an overcoat for himself:
Gevorkyan et al.; Blotsky, pp. 226–27.
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“All through my university years”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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“not particularly outgoing”:
Blotsky, p. 287.
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“He says, ‘Let’s go’”:
Ibid., pp. 287–88.
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“Once I tried”:
Sergei Roldugin, quoted in Gevorkyan et al.
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“That’s how it happened”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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a tiny minority:
Sergei Zakharov, “Brachnost’ v Rossii: Istoriya i sovremennost’,”
Demoskop Weekly
, Oct. 16–29, 2006, pp. 261–62.
http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2006/0261/tema02.php
. Accessed Feb. 27, 2011.
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“One evening”:
Gevorkyan et al.
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such was his cover:
Ibid.
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“I was most amazed”:
Ibid.
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“Only the Central Committee”:
Vadim Bakatin,
Izbavleniye ot KGB
(Moscow: Novosti, 1992), pp. 45–46.
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Article 190:
Bakatin, pp. 32–33.
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constant surveillance and harassment:
Filipp Bobkov,
KGB i vlast
(Moscow: Veteran MP, 1995).
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thoroughly familiar with the way it was organized:
Gevorkyan et al.
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A perfectly laudatory memoir:
Vladimir Usol’tsev,
Sosluzhivets
(Moscow: Eksmo, 2004), p. 186.
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“It was an entirely unremarkable school”:
Ibid.
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Counterintelligence officers in Moscow:
Bobkov.
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assigned to the intelligence unit:
Gevorkyan et al.
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did his job well:
Ibid.
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a little Stasi world:
Ludmila Putina, quoted ibid.
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Putin drank beer:
Gevorkyan et al.
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Putin was assigned:
Author interview with Sergei Bezrukov (former KGB agent in Berlin), Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.
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Putin and his two colleagues:
Usol’tsev, pp. 70–74; author interview with Sergei Bezrukov, Düsseldorf, August 17, 2011.
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small monthly hard-currency payments:
Usol’tsev, p. 36.
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they made a lot more money:
Ibid., p. 30.