The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (44 page)

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“We don’t spread our legs”:
“Putin obidelsya na sravneniye Obamy: My ne umeyem stoyat’ ‘vraskoryachku,’” unsigned news item on
www.newsru.com
, July 3, 2009.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/03jul2009/raskoryachka.html
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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“I understand that an illness”:
Petr Mironenko, Dmitry Butrin, and Yelena Kiselyova, “Rvyot i Mechel,”
Kommersant
, July 25, 2008.
http://www.kommersant.ru/Doc/915811
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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“to be hit over the head with a stick”:
“Putin predrek oppozitsioneram ‘otovarivaniye dubinkoy,’” unsigned news item on
www.lenta.ru
, Aug. 30, 2010.
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/08/30/explain/
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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topless photographs of him vacationing:
“Vladimir Putin Goes Fishing,” photo gallery,
Guardian
, Aug. 14, 2007.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/aug/14/russia.internationalnews
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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coverage of his diving:
“Vladimir Putin, nashedshiy amfory VI veka, stal obyektom dlya nasmeshek rossiyskikh bloggerov I zarubezhnykh SMI,” unsigned item on
www.newsru.com
, Aug. 11, 2011.
http://www.newsru.com/russia/11aug2011/putin_amf.html
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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planted there in advance by archaeologists:
Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, later admitted that the vases had been planted. See Stepan Opalev, “Peskov pro Putina: Amfory nashel ne sam,”
www.slon.ru
, October 5, 2011.
http://slon.ru/russia/peskov_pro_putina_amfory_nashel_ne_sam-684066.xhtml
. Accessed Nov. 10, 2011.

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increase the presidential term to six years:
“Medvedev vnyos v Gosdumu zakonoproekt o prodlenii prezidentskikh polnomochiy,” unsigned news item on
www.lenta.ru
, Nov. 11, 2008.
http://lenta.ru/news/2008/11/11/medvedev/
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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Every year, Russia slid lower:
Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index.
http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results
. Accessed Nov. 15, 2011.

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15 percent of the Russian prison population:
Ludmila Alekseeva speaking at the Yegor Gaidar Prize ceremony, Moscow, Nov. 14, 2011.

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five gold wristwatches:
“Zolotiye chasy dlya upravleniya delami Voronozhskoy oblasti. Prodolzheniye,”
Rospil
blog, Oct. 6, 2011.
http://rospil.info/news/p/983
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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technical documentation on a planned railroad crossing:
“Recheniye komissii FAS po zakazu s tsenoy kontrakta boleye chem 11.5 mlrd rubley,”
Rospil
blog, Oct. 11, 2011.
http://rospil.info/news/p/999
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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two beds and two bedside tables:
“MVD zaplatit 25 millionov rubley za otdelanniye zolotom krovati,” unsigned news item on
www.lenta.ru
, Aug. 19, 2008.
http://lenta.ru/news/2009/08/19/gold/
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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“An actual politician”:
Anna Kachurovskaya, “Alexei Navalny: Tol’ko, pozhaluysta, ne nado govorit’: ‘Navalny sravnil sebya s Obamoy,’”
Snob
, Nov. 2010.

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a
New Yorker
profile:
Julia Ioffe, “Net Impact: One Man’s Cyber-Crusade Against Russian Corruption,”
New Yorker
, April 4, 2011.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_ioffe
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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an all-time speed record:
“Proekt ‘Rospil’ sobral perviy million na ‘Yandex-den’gakh’,” unsigned news item on
www.lenta.ru
, Feb. 3, 2011.
http://lenta.ru/news/2011/02/03/million/
. Accessed Nov. 11, 2011.

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Medvedev would be his prime minister:
“Putin vydvigayetsya na prezidentskiye vybory 2012 goda,” unsigned news item on
www.gazeta.ru
, Sept. 24, 2011.
http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lastnews/2011/09/24/n_2022837.shtml
. Accessed Nov. 12, 2011.

EPILOGUE: A WEEK IN DECEMBER

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just over 23 percent of the vote:
Aleksei Zakharov, “Rezultaty vyborov na tekh uchastkakh, gde ne byli zafiksirovany narusheniya,”
www.slon.ru
, Dec. 5, 2011.
http://slon.ru/calendar/event/723777/
. Accessed Dec. 11, 2011.

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“‘Democracy is in action’”:
David Herszenhorn, Ellen Barry, “Majority for Putin’s Party Narrows in Rebuke from Voters,”
New York Times
, Dec. 4, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/world/europe/russians-vote-governing-party-claims-early-victory.html?n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/Russia?ref=russia
. Accessed Dec. 11, 2011.

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Mikhail Gorbachev has called for a revote:
“Mikhail Gorbachev—Novoy,”
Novaya Gazeta
, Dec. 7, 2011.
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/49918.html
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

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“The problem with the Soviet regime”:
Masha Gessen, “When There’s No Going Back,”
International Herald Tribune
, Dec. 8, 2011.
http://latitude.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/when-theres-no-going-back/?scp=2&sq=masha%20gessen&st=cse
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

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“irritated urban communities”:
Natalya Raybman, “Surkov: Nuzhno sozdat’ partiyu dlya razdrazhennykh gorozhan,”
Vedomosti
, Dec. 6, 2011.
http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/1444694/surkov_nuzhno_sozdat_partiyu_dlya_razdrazhennyh_gorozhan
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

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“inciting enmity against a specific social group”:
Olga Korol’, “Ex-press-sekretaryu prezidenta Tatarstana Murtazinu dali real’niy srok,”
Komsomol’skaya Pravda
, Nov. 26, 2009.
http://www.kp.ru/online/news//577494/
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

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“Why does everything in this country”:
Boris Akunin blog entry, “I Could Not Sit Still,” Dec. 9, 2011.
http://borisakunin.livejournal.com/45529.html
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

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Protests were held today:
Konstantin Benyumov, “Vstavay, strana ogromnaya! Mitingi protesta 10 dekabrya proshli v 99 gorodakh Rossii,”
onair.ru
.
http://www.onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID_38499/
. Accessed Dec. 13, 2011.

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the government has no comment:
“Dmitry Peskov ne kommentiruyet miting na Bolotnoy ploshchadi,” unsigned news item,
www.gazeta.ru
, Dec. 10, 2011.
http://www.gazeta.ru/news/lenta/2011/12/10/n_2130194.shtml
. Accessed Dec. 12, 2011.

Index

Abramovich, Roman, 255–56

Activism

Leningrad, 77–79, 82, 83, 86–88

pro-democracy, 83, 84, 87

See also
People’s Front

Albright, Madeleine, 35

Alexandrov, Alexander, 179

All-Russia State Television, 185

Angleterre Hotel (Leningrad), 72–73, 75–76, 77

Apartment-block bombings (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218

Armenia, 3, 79, 81, 82, 84

Artemyev, Igor, 109

Assassinations, 219

FSB, 200, 201

Putin and, 226, 264

See also
Murder; Poisoning

Aushev, Ruslan, 214, 215

Azerbaijan, 2, 79, 81, 102

Babitsky, Andrei, 32–36, 42, 161, 212

Baikalfinansgrup, 253, 254

Bakatin, Vadim, 93–94

Baku, 102

Baltic republics, 106, 133

Battle of the Angleterre, 76, 89

Belyaev, Alexander, 109

Berezovsky, Boris, 12, 26, 28–29, 41, 175, 188, 202, 209

Putin and, 15–21, 27, 31, 32, 42, 43, 131, 140, 171, 173–74, 182, 200–201, 257, 261

Berlin, 65, 67–68

Berzin, Yan, 53–54

Beslan school hostage incident, 189–90, 191–94, 212–17, 218, 221, 248–49

Bezrukov, Sergei, 97–98

Bills

lustration, 3, 4, 6

Putin and, 181, 182, 190

Bogdanov, Alexander, 135–36

Boldyrev, Yuri, 119, 121, 123–24, 136

Bolsheviks, 53, 178

Bombings

apartment-block (1999), 23–25, 26, 36–42, 202, 203–4, 211, 216, 217, 218

Leningrad, Angleterre Hotel (1987), 72–73, 75–76, 77

Bonner, Yelena, 174–75

Borisenko, Viktor, 48, 57

Browder, William, 233–34, 235, 243–47, 248

Buhre, Paul, 81

Bush, George W., 229

Buynaksk, 23

Bystritsky, Andrei, 187–88

Censorship, 73, 82.
See also
Journalism; Media

Channel One (Russian Public Television), 17, 27, 172, 174

Chechens, 25, 41, 146–51, 212, 213, 217, 224–25

Chechnya, 5, 17, 23, 107, 145, 154–55, 209, 213, 214, 217, 221, 226

Putin and, 208, 220, 224, 231–33

wars, 25–26, 28, 32–35, 36, 146–48, 149–51, 155, 208, 210, 214, 218, 220, 229, 231–32

Cherkesov, Viktor, 160

Chochiev, Alan, 195

Chubais, Anatoly, 12, 20, 21, 22, 28, 31

CNN, 173

Committee for Constitutional Oversight, 98

Committee 2008, 186

Communism, 132–33.
See also
Soviet Union

Communist Party, 3, 4, 6, 20–21, 22, 60, 73, 77, 80, 83, 84, 85, 86–87, 88, 89, 92, 97, 104, 118, 124, 133, 227, 242–43

Companies, 239

corruption of, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248

Congress of People’s Deputies, 125–26

Constitution, Russian, 153, 154, 181

Corruption

of companies, 234, 241–42, 244–47, 248

in elections, 182–83, 184–85, 186–88, 228, 267–68

of Putin, 254, 256–57, 258, 259–60, 261, 266, 270

in Russia, 248, 255–56, 258, 264, 266, 270

Coup (1991), 105–6, 107–14, 115–18, 119, 235

Courtyards, of Soviet apartment buildings, 46, 48

Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
(Goldfarb), 224

Decrees, 153–54, 181, 182

Democracy

Kasparov campaign to establish, 102, 190–91, 192–97

Putin and, 131, 132, 134, 181–82, 184, 187, 190–91

Russia and, 131, 132, 134, 181–89, 227–28

Democratic Russia, 5

Democrats (Russia), 110, 115, 126, 227

KGB and, 98

Detention cells/camps, 74, 149

Discussion groups, Leningrad, 76, 77, 80

Dissidents, 61, 72, 73, 126.
See also
“Informals”

Dorenko, Sergei, 171–73

Dozen Knives at My Back, A
(Sobchak), 141

Drel, Anton, 240

Dresden, 62–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70

Dresden University of Technology, 64

Drozdov, Yuri, 97

Dubeykovskaya, Yana, 184, 186

Dubov, Yuli, 257

Duma, 6, 20, 22, 180, 203, 228.
See also
Parliament

Dzasokhov, Alexander, 214

Echo Moskvy, 1, 2, 204

Economic crisis (1998), 181, 236–37

Economy, 236

Illarionov and, 230–33

Putin and, 230, 231, 232, 233, 241, 253–54, 259

Russian, 255

St. Petersburg, 134–35, 139

Elections

corruption in, 182–83, 184–85, 186–88, 228, 267–68

journalism and, 228–29

1989, 83–84

parliamentary (2003), 227–28, 243

presidential (2000), 263

presidential (2004), 183–88, 263

presidential (2008), 263

Putin presidential candidacy, 19–22, 27, 28, 29, 30–31, 36, 41–42, 127, 142, 145, 147, 148–49, 150–51, 153, 183, 184–85, 186, 187–88, 263, 270

Putin’s changes to, 190

Estonia, 106, 133

Ethnic conflicts, 106.
See also
Armenia; Chechens; Chechnya

European Union, 133, 208

“Family” (around Yeltsin), 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 29

Federal Security Service (FSB), 23, 38, 40, 209, 213, 214