The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (43 page)

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“That journalist was indeed”:
Putin speaking at a press conference in Dresden, Oct. 10, 2006.
http://www.newstube.ru/Media.aspx?mediaid=511BE4A2-5153-4F4E-BEA2-3086663E96D4
. Accessed June 27, 2011.

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“As I lie here”:
Goldfarb and Litvinenko, p. 335.

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Putin had him killed:
Author interview with Alexander Goldfarb, London, June 6, 2011;
Sasha, Volodya, Boris …

TEN. INSATIABLE GREED

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“The … elections … failed”:
OSCE PA International Election Observation Mission Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions.
http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/russia/18284
. Accessed June 14, 2011.

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condescending but approving editorial:
“Russians Inch Toward Democracy,” unsigned editorial,
New York Times
, Dec. 8, 2003.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/opinion/russians-inch-toward-democracy.html
. Accessed June 14, 2011.

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mammoth news story:
David Holley and Kim Murphy, “Election Bolsters Putin’s Control,”
Los Angeles Times
, Dec. 8, 2003.
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/dec/08/world/fg-russelect8
. Accessed June 14, 2011.

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whole story right in the headline:
“Racists, Killers and Criminals Run for Duma,”
National Post
, Dec. 6, 2003.

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“a democrat’s nightmare”:
“Putin’s Way,”
Economist
, Dec. 11, 2003.
http://www.economist.com/node/2282403
. Accessed June 14, 2011.

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considerably less enthusiastic:
“Bush and Putin: Best of Friends,”
BBC News
, June 16, 2001.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1392791.stm
. Accessed July 11, 2011.

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abrogation of an agreement:
Robert O. Freeman, “Russia, Iran and the Nuclear Question: The Putin Record,” a publication of the Strategic Studies Institute.
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub737.pdf
. Accessed July 11, 2011.

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several billion dollars a year:
See, for example, “Russia Signs Arms Deals with Arab States Totaling $12 Billion,” unsigned news story on pravda.ru.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/22-02-2011/116979-russia_arms_deals-0/
. Accessed July 11, 2011.

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appointed a liberal economist:
The economist was German Gref, and the think tank was Tsentr strategicheskih razrabotok (Center for Strategic Initiatives).

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something remarkable happened:
Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011; Andrei Illarionov, “Slovo i delo,”
Kontinent
, no. 134 (2007), pp. 83–147.

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“The esprit de corps was like”:
Author interview with William Browder, London, May 13, 2011.

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devising ways to squeeze cash:
Hoffman,
The Oligarchs.

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“Those who wanted to make”:
Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Leonid Nevzlin,
Chelovek s
rublem
.
http://lit.lib.ru/n/newzlin_l_b/text_0010.shtml
. Accessed July 16, 2011.

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“I would go to our oil rigs”:
Ludmila Ulitskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, “Dialogi,”
Znamya
, no. 10 (2009).
http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2009/10/ul12.html
. Accessed July 16, 2011.

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“Until that point … I saw”:
Ibid.

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“Before Pricewaterhouse came along”:
Author interview with Pavel Ivlev, New York City, July 2, 2011.

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“We would set up”:
Author interview with Charles Krause, New York City, June 30, 2011.

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I had heard it once:
This talk was given in Zvenigorod on Oct. 27, 2002.

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Khodorkovsky told Litvinovich to return to Moscow:
Author interview with Marina Litvinovich, December 2009.

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two to three times those in the government sector:
“Korruptsiya v Rossii—tormoz ekonomicheskogo rosta,” a slide presentation acquired from the Khodorkovsky Press Center in Moscow, June 2011.

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“Everyone thinks”:
Kolesnikov,
Ya Putina videl!
, p. 284.

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He got the same smirk on his face:
Video footage of the meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KLzF3_-ShU&NR=1
. Accessed July 17, 2011.

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“It took three or four attempts”:
Author interview with Mikhail Kasyanov, Moscow, May 2011.

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had “of course” been cleared by the Kremlin:
Author interview with Leonid Nevzlin, Greenwich, Conn., July 1, 2011.

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“He did not go”:
Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011.

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“We should … fully support [Putin]”:
Moscow Times
, Jan. 21, 2004. Full text:
http://hermitagefund.com/newsandmedia/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=312
. Accessed July 17, 2011.

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he argued he should be released:
Sergei Magnitsky court testimony, unpublished document.

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more corrupt than 86 percent of the world:
Transparency International, Global Corruption Reports 2003 and 2010.
http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr
. Accessed July 17, 2011. The actual rankings are 86 for 2003 and 154 for 2010, but because of the changing total number of countries in the reports (133 in 2003 and 178 in 2010), I give the figures here as percentages.

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“Everyone had their own turning point”:
Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011. Illarionov’s subsequent comments are from the same interview.

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“different set of rails”:
Andrei Illarionov, “Drugaya Strana,” originally published in
Kommersant
, Jan. 27, 2006.
http://www.liberal.ru/anons/312
. Accessed July 17, 2011.

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he fired his cabinet:
“Kasyanov, Mikhail,” unsigned Lentapedia dossier.
http://lenta.ru/lib/14159606/full.htm
. Accessed July 17, 2011.

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To visit their client:
Author interview with Karina Moskalenko, Strasbourg, July 5, 2011.

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now run by Putin’s former deputy:
“Miller, Alexei,” an unsigned Lentapedia dossier.
http://lenta.ru/lib/14160384/
. Accessed July 18, 2011.

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lasted all of two minutes:
Yelena Lubarskaya, “‘Yuganskneftegaz’utopili v ‘Baikale,’” lenta.ru, Dec. 20, 2004.
http://lenta.ru/articles/2004/12/20/ugansk/
. Accessed July 18, 2011. Denis Skorobogat’ko, Dmitry Butrin, and Nikolai Kovalev, “‘Yugansk’ kupili ludi iz ‘Londona,’”
Kommersant
, Dec. 12, 2004.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/534631?isSearch=True
. Accessed July 18, 2011. “Russia to Hold Yukos Auction Despite US Ruling,” unsigned news story on MSNBC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6726341/
. Accessed July 18, 2011.

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in the course of a rigged auction:
“‘Rosneft’ kupila ‘Baikalfinansgrup,’ poluchiv control nad ‘Yuganskneftegazom,’” unsigned news story,
newsru.com
.
http://www.newsru.com/finance/23dec2004/rosneft.html
. Accessed July 18, 2011.

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net worth at $40 billion:
Luke Harding, “Putin, the Kremlin Power Struggle, and the $40bn Fortune,”
Guardian
, Dec. 21, 2007.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/21/russia.topstories3
. Accessed July 18, 2011.

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“we knew this was not money”:
Author interview with Sergei Kolesnikov, Helsinki, June 2011.

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the Black Sea project existed:
Roman Anin, “Dvortsovaya ploshad 740 tysyach kvadratnykh metrov,”
Novaya Gazeta
, Feb. 14, 2011.
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2011/016/00.html
#sup. Accessed July 19, 2011. Pavel Korobov and Oleg Kashin, “Vot chego-chego, a kontrollerov u nas khvatayet,”
Kommersant
, April 20, 2011.
http://www.kommersant.ru/Doc/1625310
. Accessed July 19, 2011.

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“Either you have me help you”:
Author interview with Yuli Dubov, London, June 6, 2011.

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Putin pocketed the 124-diamond Super Bowl ring:
Jacob Gershman, “Putin Pockets Patriots Ring,” New York
Sun
, June 28, 2005.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/putin-pockets-patriots-ring/16172/
. Accessed July 19, 2011. Donovan Slack, “For Putin, It’s a Gem of a Cultural Exchange,”
Boston Globe
, June 29, 2005.
http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2005/06/29/for_putin_its_a_gem_of_a_cultural_exchange/
. Accessed July 19, 2011; “Vladimir Putin poluchil persten s 124 brilliantami,” unsigned news item,
Kommersant
, June 30, 2005.
http://www.kommersant.ru/news/984560
. Accessed July 19, 2011. Putin’s comment that he “could kill someone with this” was recounted by Robert Kraft’s wife, Myra; see “Myra Kraft: Putin Stole Robert’s Ring,”
Jewish Russian Telegraph
, March 18, 2007.
http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2007/03/myra_kraft_puti.html
. Accessed Oct. 31, 2011.

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New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum:
Art consultant Nic Iljine recounts the incident in his essay “Guggenheim 24/7,” in Laura K. Jones, ed.,
A Hedonist’s Guide to Art
(London: Filmer, 2010); see, for instance:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/book-details-strongman-vladimir-putins-artful-ways/story-e6frg6so-1225978192724
.

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costs about $300 in Moscow:
Here, for example, it is listed for 8,200 rubles:
http://www.alcoport.ru/katalog/products/vodka/vodka-kalashnikov/vodka-kalashnikov-1l
. Accessed July 19, 2011.

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Andrei Illarionov discovered:
Author interview with Andrei Illarionov, Moscow, June 2011.

ELEVEN. BACK TO THE USSR

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the Russian blogosphere consisted:
Interview with Bruce Eitling and John Kelly, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov. 7, 2008.

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editors pulled their stories:
In March 2011, Dozhd, an Internet TV channel, canceled the program
Grazhdanin Poet
over a sketch skewering Medvedev. General Director Natalya Sindeeva explained in a statement that she did not want to insult Medvedev personally.
http://tvrain.ru/teleshow/poet_and_citizen/
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011. I had several similar experiences as editor of
www.snob.ru
, where the publisher, for example, made me remove a reference to a British newspaper article in which Medvedev was called “Putin’s assistant.”

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“We know they are now lying low”:
“Putin poruchil spetssluzhbam ‘vykovyryat’ terroristov so dna kanalizatsii,” unsigned news item on
www.lenta.ru
, March 30, 2010.
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/03/30/drainpipe/
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.