Putin's Labyrinth

Chapter 1: Russia’s Dark Side

“The current FSB wouldn’t” Author interview with Nikita Petrov, August 31, 2007.

“Russian history taught its people” Ibid.

In 2004, Qatar convicted two Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was murdered on February 13, 2004. Anatoly Yablochkov, thirty-five, and Vasily Pugachyov, thirty-two, were convicted by a Qatari court of murder and sentenced to life in prison. They were let go in January 2005. On February 17, 2005, the BBC quoted a Russian prison official named Yuri Kalinin that the pair was not in any Russian prison, and that in any case the Qatari conviction was “irrelevant here in Russia” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4275147.stm).

Her most recent study Detail and quote from author interview with Olga Kryshtanovskaya, September 3, 2007.

Yuri Sinelshchikov, a former deputy Detail and quote from author interview with Yuri Sinelshchikov, April 10, 2007.

“The local attitude is, ‘Shit happens’” Author interview with Rory MacFarquar, March 20, 2007.

“Life isn’t straightforward here” Author interview with Al Breach, March 19, 2007.

“I would advise you” Author interview with Alexei Miller, August 28, 2007.

“People say that Russians” Author interview with Alexander Kamenskii, September 3, 2007.

Russia’s first crowned czar Physical description of Ivan from Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible (New York: Crowell, 1975), 215.

“thrust into his fundament through his” Edward Augustus Bond, Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century (London: Hakluyt Society, 1861 reprint of 1591 manuscript of Sir Jerome Horsey), 173. Horsey was an agent of the Russia Company and was described as having lived in Moscow more or less continually from 1575 to 1591.

“cut off his nose, his tongue” Benson Bobrick, Fearful Majesty (New York: Putnam, 1987), 207.

Convinced that one Prince Vladimir Payne and Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible, 263–64.

“to make an example” Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980), 270.

“In case also that anyone” Ibid., 726.

Josef Stalin executed nearly all Number of dead under Stalin from Robert Conquest, The Great Terror (London: Pimlico, repr. 1994), 286, 339.

“teacher, teacher” Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003), 350.

“constantly compared his terror” Ibid.

“he should have killed” Ibid., 206.

“victorious Russian rulers” Pavel and Anatoli Sudoplatov with Jerrold L. and Leona P. Schecter, Special Tasks (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994), 5.

Indeed, his book is a Assassinations as described in Sudoplatov et al. Special Tasks, 27, 46–49, 67–83.

Dressed in a silk scarf and a Detail and quotes from author interview with Musa Eitingon Malinovskaya, August 30, 2007.

Another defector, Bulgarian novelist Description of Georgy Markov’s assassination based on the documentary Umbrella Assassin (PBS, 2006). Markov was jabbed on September 7, 1978, and died four days later, on September 11, 1978.

In summer 1993, three gunmen The New York Times, August 16, 1993.

In April 1995, two gunmen killed The New York Times, June 7, 1995.

And in November 1996 The New York Times, November 11, 1996.

In a 1994 case, police came The New York Times, December 11, 1994.

Chapter 2: How Putin Got Elected

“a mixture between” John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, August 15, 1999.

The story of Vladimir Putin’s ascent The number of Yeltsin’s heart attacks had been a closely held secret until Yeltsin disclosed it in a January 2004 interview with RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, according to a BBC dispatch, January 20, 2004.

In recent months, allegations had surfaced Sharon LaFraniere, The Washington Post, September 8, 1999.

“a man of” Oleg Kalugin, quoted by Paul Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin (Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2000), 297.

By the end of 2006 Olga Kryshtanovskaya, quoted by Reuters, December 15, 2006.

“I think the best plan would” Mikhail Fridman, quoted by John Lloyd, The New York Times Magazine, October 8, 2000.

Yeltsin warned that Boris Yeltsin, quoted by CNN, April 9, 1999.

“transformed the Russian political” Klebnikov, Godfather of the Kremlin, 302.

“Ryazan was planned” David Satter, Darkness at Dawn (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), n265.

“those who needed another” Ibid., 69.

Opposition lawmaker Vladimir Golovlyov Vladimir Golovlyov was killed August 21, 2002; Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin were killed on April 17, 2003, and July 3, 2003, respectively. Mikhail Trepashkin was jailed on October 22, 2003.

“There are no people” Vladimir Putin, quoted in The New York Times, February 2, 2002.

Russia possessed 26 percent of BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007.

As prime minister, Putin Andrew Jack, Inside Putin’s Russia (London: Granta Books, 2004), 14.

“This profession employs” Vladimir Putin, quoted in The Washington Post, December 22, 2006.

Chapter 3: Getting to Know The Putin

Europe was an important energy BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2006. It is understood by energy experts that Europe’s reliance on Russian natural gas did not diminish in 2007 and 2008.

According to the SOVA Center Statistics from the SOVA Center are at http://xeno.sova- center.ru/6BA2468.

He thought Washington simply didn’t understand Quotes, paraphrases, and detail from author’s interview with “Viktor,” August 29, 2007.