The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

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

apartment-block bombings (1999) and, 31, 38–42, 202, 203, 216, 217

assassinations, 200, 201

Putin and, 18, 39, 41, 42, 152–53, 160, 172, 200–201

terrorism and, 217

whistle-blowers, 199–204

Felshtinsky, Yuri, 202, 203

Flag

new Russia (1991), 114–15, 178

USSR, 114–15, 178

Foreign postings

Dresden, 62–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70

money and, 64–65

Foundation for Effective Politics, 27, 28, 131

FSB. See Federal Security Service

Gagry, 56

Gaidar, Yegor, 13, 127

Gazprom, 163, 164, 253

Georgia, 45, 56, 106

Germany, 44, 53, 133

East, 62–64, 65–66, 67–70

emigrants from East to West, 67

protests and unrest in East, 66, 67–69

reunification, 66, 68

West, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67–68

See also World War II

Gevorkyan, Natalia, 32, 33–34, 36, 45, 52, 93, 161

Gidaspov, Boris, 89

GKChP. See State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR

Glasnost (openness), 73

Glazyev, Sergei, 184–85, 186

Glinka, Mikhail, 179

Goldfarb, Alexander, 28, 182, 202, 223, 224–25

Gonchar, Nikolai, 115

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 4, 66, 73–74, 85–86, 93, 98, 164, 178

coup (1991) and, 106, 107, 108, 114, 115

Great Palace (Kremlin), 151

Great Terror, 79

Grozny, 25, 26, 146–50, 209

Gusinsky, Vladimir, 36, 41, 132, 155, 156, 159, 161, 162–64, 174, 175, 185, 188, 189

Hamzat (Chechen man), 148–49

Hermitage Fund, 234, 244

Hostage incidents, 218

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

Moscow theater, 204–8, 209, 210–11, 213, 217, 218

House of culture, Kasparov at, 191–92

“Hyde Park” (Mikhailov Gardens, Leningrad), 77–78

Illarionov, Andrei, 230–33, 235, 243, 248, 249, 259

Independent Press Center, 137, 138

“Informals,” 74–76, 92, 93

Information Point, 76, 77

Interregional Group, 3

Itogi, 1–2, 164

Ivanov, Igor, 35

Journalism, 137, 138

elections and, 228–29

investigative, 144, 211–13, 221

Putin coverage in U.S., 229–30, 233, 248

Russia coverage in U.S., 228–30, 233, 248

Kadyrov, Ramzan, 224–25

Kartofelnikov, Alexei, 37, 38, 40

Kasparov, Garry, 102, 190–91, 192–97, 218, 267

Kasyanov, Mikhail, 153, 154, 163, 164, 242, 249–51

Kazansky Cathedral (Leningrad), 78

KGB, 3, 8, 137, 162

active reserve, 93–94, 95, 136

bloating (1970s) of, 60, 63

coup (1991) and, 66, 99, 108, 110, 115, 117

democrats and, 98

directorates, 64

dismantling of, 114

dissidents and, 61