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drafting of undercover agents, 64, 66

Dresden outpost, 62–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70

ideology of, 60, 63

illegal intelligence directorate, 64, 97

image of, 52

officer school, 61

Putin and, 17, 18, 28, 32, 36, 50–51, 52–53, 54, 55, 56–57, 59–64, 65–67, 68–69, 70, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98–99, 117, 118, 133, 134, 136, 181, 260

spy school, 62

Khakamada, Irina, 186, 187, 188

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 131–32, 213, 235–43, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252–53, 254, 259–60

Khramtsov, Viktor, 109

Khrushchev, Nikita, 179

Klebanov, Ilya, 169–70

Knowledge Day, 188–89

Kolesnikov, Sergei, 254–55, 256–57, 258

Kommersant, 152, 182

Komsomol, 235

Kontinent, 118, 119

Kovalev, Alexei, 75, 89, 180

Kovtun, Dmitry, 225, 226

Kraft, Robert, 258

Kremlin, 16, 141, 151, 211, 219

television and, 167–68

Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 117, 118, 152

Kuroyedov, Vladimir, 169

Kursk disaster, 164–72, 173, 206

Larry King Live, 173

Latvia, 106

Lebedev, Platon, 238, 240, 242, 250, 252

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 235–36

Leningrad, 61, 70, 107, 119, 120

activism, 77–79, 82, 83, 84, 86–88

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

Committee for Foreign Relations, 121

commodity exports, 121–24

food imports, 121–22, 123–24

meat imports, 104–5, 118–19

postwar, 72

Putin as deputy mayor of, 107, 119, 120–23

rationing and protests (1989–1990), 102–4

Siege of, 43–45, 46, 71–72, 102

television station, 110, 112

See also St. Petersburg

Leningrad city council, 92–93, 102, 103, 114, 125

coup (1991) and, 109–11, 112

Putin in, 95–99

Salye on, 88, 89, 91, 104–5, 109, 110, 112, 118, 119, 121, 122–23, 124

See also St. Petersburg city council

Leningrad State University, 54, 55, 59, 94–95, 96

Lesin, Mikhail, 163

Liberal Democratic Party, 227

Liberals, 186–87, 227, 230

Linkov, Ruslan, 7

Lithuania, 106

Litvinenko, Alexander, 199–203, 209–10, 220

poisoning of, 221–26, 260

Litvinovich, Marina, 27–28, 167, 168, 186, 187, 200–202, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218–19, 222–23, 224, 239, 240

Lugovoy, Andrei, 225, 226

Lustration, 70

bill, 3, 4, 6

Luzhkov, Yuri, 20, 21, 27, 111, 161

Magnitsky, Sergei, 245, 246–48

Maksimov, Vladimir, 137

Maksimova, Tamara, 137

Man with a Ruble (Khodorkovsky and Nevzlin), 235–36, 238

Mariinsky Palace (Leningrad), 89, 90, 109, 111, 112

Maskhadov, Aslan, 214, 215

Mayakovsky Square rally (Moscow, 1991), 4–5

Meat imports, 102

Leningrad and, 104–5, 118–19

Media, 14, 162

police special forces and, 155–56

Putin and, 163–64

Media-Most, 155–56, 159

Medved (The Bear), 29

Medvedev, Dmitry, 263–64, 265–66, 270

Meri, Lennart, 133

Merkel, Angela, 220

Mikhailov Gardens (Leningrad), 77–78

Mikhalkov, Sergei, 179

Military, and Putin, 153–54

Moscow, 16, 27, 69, 71, 102, 106, 107, 119, 123, 140, 181

apartment-block bombings, 23, 24–25, 37–38, 203

coup (1991) and, 110, 111, 113–14, 115

theater hostage incident, 204–8, 209, 210–11, 213, 217, 218

Mothers of Beslan, 192, 193

Murder. See Assassinations; Poisoning

Murder of Politkovskaya, 219–21, 224–25

Nagorno-Karabakh, 2–3, 81–82

Narusova, Ludmila, 135–36, 140, 141

National anthem

Russian, 179, 180

Soviet Union, 179–80

Navalny, Alexey, 266–67

Nevsky Prospekt (Leningrad), 103, 114, 115, 136

Nevzlin, Leonid, 235–36, 238–39, 242, 253

New Cemetery (Beslan), 191